Re: Re:ospf nssa backwards, Why tag redistributed routes?

From: Michael Snyder (msnyder@xxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 13:20:47 GMT-3


   
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From: "tim wu" <tim_wu@gz.ctil.com>
To: <msnyder@ldd.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 5:38 AM
Subject: Re:ospf nssa backwards

>Dear Michael Snyder

>I don't understand why did you use "tag" in your command? >Route tag seems
not useful in your scenario.

Because I want to know where a route came from. Tag's stay with a route any
where the route shows up. Not all routing protocols support tags, but the
ones that do, I use.

Think of it this way. I have 40 cats, 30 normal cats (regular routes) and
10 special cats (redistributed routes). If walk into a random room
(router)and see three cats with ear tags, I can follow the numbers on the
ear tags to find out why they are in the room.

The short form of this answer is I use tags to follow the effects of my
redistribution commands.

BTW, Tim you are correct that are not being used as a functional router
command. But they could be, if needed downstream.
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