Thursday, November 04, 2004

Q: Why are only my eBGP-learned routes getting redistributed into OSPF, while the iBGP-learned routes are not?

A:
Cisco has added a "safety feature" to BGP in order to, they say, prevent possible accidental routing loops. I think this is unnecessary, as anyone configuring BGP should already be knowledgeable enough to set up route redistribution correctly. Anyway, your router won't redistribute any iBGP routes into OSPF unless you add the following directive to the ROUTER BGP section: bgp redistribute-internal