The Need for Route Redistribution

ImageLesson 1: Route Redistribution Fundamentals

The potential need for route redistribution exists when a route learned through one source of routing information, most typically one routing protocol, needs to be distributed into a second routing protocol domain. For example, two companies might merge, with one company using Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and the other using Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). The engineers could choose to immediately migrate away from OSPF to instead use EIGRP exclusively, but that migration would take time and potentially cause outages. Route redistribution allows ...

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