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Re: Using RFC1918 on Global table as Loopbacks


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 08:42:45 +0300

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 20:45, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:

The recommendation is to make Router-IDs globally unique. They're used
in collision detection. What if you and a peer pick the same non
globally unique address? Any session will never come up.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6286

      If the BGP Identifiers of the peers involved in the connection
      collision are identical, then the connection initiated by the BGP
      speaker with the larger AS number is preserved

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  ++ytti


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