There's a hack around it (not pretty...) -- use physically different LAN to propagate routing updates, with NEXT-HOPs pointing to the "data LAN" interfaces. The problem with that solution is that if data LAN fails, there's no way to learn about it at BGP level. That is due to the unfortunate property of BGP (and many other routing protocols) that it uses the same transport to propagate keepalives and routing updates. --vadim

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i wasnt' aware that bgp keepalives had a queuiing priority... or are you talking about spd?

Yes, SPD.

SPD (IP precedence) will not affect the prioritzation that the gigaswitch applies (which is no prioritization). --jhawk