Just to add the greatest value i've found myself in a feature like the "advertise-inactive" is for analysis purposes (ie. on a something that peers to the BGP speaker) rather than routing.
Cheers, Paolo On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:41:52PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote: > I see your point here, but we weren't talking about readvertising an > IGP route into BGP, but rather how to get the inactive BGP route > advertised. Sure there are corner cases where advertise-inactive is > handy, but in general I've seen it bring about many more operational > issues than it tends to resolve... > > Just my $.02. > > > > On 10/8/09, Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:26:01PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote: > >> I would agree. I've always been under the impression that the > >> advertise-inactive was for people who were too lazy to actually fix their > >> underlying routing issues. But I'd have to say it certainly came in handy > >> on more than one occasion during my Juniper lab exams ;) > > > > There are many legitimate reasons why you might need to advertise a > > route learned from your IGP via BGP. Keeping a tidy IGP is commendable > > (though there are also many legitimate reasons why you carry extra > > routes in your IGP to act as nexthops for your other bgp routes, vs > > resetting everything to loopback), but IMHO refusing to configure > > advertise-inactive to keep your network working properly in the face of > > what is otherwise a relatively minor nit is pure masochism. > > > > -- > > Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) > > > > > -- > Stefan Fouant _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
