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Redistribution Design

marc.laporte
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Hi,

I read recently that if you do redistribution you should always redistribute from a less reliable protocol into a more reliable protocol (RIP->OSPF, OSPF->BGP, etc)...

I cannot find a good explanation why that is?

Does anyone know

Thanks,

Marc

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mheusinger
Level 10
Level 10

Well, technically you can redistribute anything into anything as long as you have the same L3 protocoll which is IPv4 in this case.

Try a "R(config-router)#redistribute ?" on a Cisco router to get an idea.

However redistribution in most cases means to loose information. This means mutual redistribution f.e. RIP<->OSPF could easily lead to routing loops. So it is a good practice to identify one "core" IP routing protocoll to carry all the information and only to insert a default route into the other protocoll.

In other words: always use filters if you have mutual redistribution and redundant paths.

It is a good idea to choose the more reliable protocoll as the core protocoll.

Having said all this, the above statement hopefully makes more sense ...

regards

Martin

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