This is a little off the topic, but it still applies. As such, feel free to respond to me personally on this. I am working on some research for one of my university classes on TCP/IP. Later in the semester we will be discussing OSPF and BGP4. I am editing my teachers notes on the subject because I have more experience with them practically than does he. I have only run them in my own organization/configuration, and because of that, my knowledge is a little limited. I would very much like to know different configurations that are currently being used with both of these protocols, so that I might be able to add valuable "industry tested" information to his lecture notes. (Zebra, gated, cisco, nortel.... etc. info welcome). If any of you are using either of these protocols, and would not mind sending me information on it, I would be very thankful. Info that I am looking for... BGP: Use of loopback interfaces Confederations eBGP vs iBGP Reflectors # of upstream peers (non local-as peers) OSPF: Area configuration Virtual Links # of ABR # of ASBR stuff like that.. Thanks again for any help that can be given. I, my fellow students, and my teacher thank you. Patrick Felt pfelt@quintam.com Sr. Software Eng./Network Eng. Quintam Corporation (Senior at Utah Valley State College, Orem Utah)