23 Apr
2004
23 Apr
'04
12:19 p.m.
* haesu@towardex.com (James) [Fri 23 Apr 2004, 02:58 CEST]:
in IOS bgp will bind source ip that is relevant to the subnet it is being peered with, even if it is a secondary ip. i am not sure if it
Actually my lab testing showed that older routers (2500/4500) do so, but real equipment (7200/7500) doesn't, for some reason
binds the ip to primary ip for the first time, then fall back to secondary ip as primary fails though.. all i know is that when i've
This it definitely doesn't do.
tried it by putting a bogus ip as primary, bgp session did turn up, but took a little longer than usual.. didn't investigate any further however.
That's probably because the other end initiated the TCP session by then. -- Niels.