
Customizing EGP Services
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EGP Implementation Notes
This section provides you with some important guidelines to follow when you
configure EGP. If you do not follow these guidelines, EGP will become disabled
on the interfaces involved.
• Autonomous system numbers must be from 1 through 65,535.
• Two autonomous systems connected by an EGP link must have different
autonomous system numbers.
• The remote IP address cannot be the same as any local IP interface address.
• The remote IP address must be on the same subnet as one of the local IP
interfaces.
• EGP does not have any loop avoidance techniques—avoid loop topologies;
otherwise, you will have to configure EGP route filters to counter the
redundancies.
• An EGP configuration between two ASs, each using a subnetted interface to a
class A network, results in a routing black hole. RIP Version 1 aggregates the
single subnet into the natural network, but the gateway router does not have
complete subnet information or a natural network route to match the one
being advertised by RIP Version 1. This black hole is not an EGP or RIP
defect: rather, it is caused by the way RIP aggregates subnets into natural
networks.
EGP will operate over a subnetted interface between two Nortel Networks
routers if a static route is implemented. The router accepting the subnet from
the remote network must augment the single subnet information with a static
route for the entire remote network.
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