In some customer environments I've come across routers with lots of loopback interfaces:
- One for the IGP's RID
- One for in-band management
- One for MSDP peering
- One for sourcing NTP client traffic
- One for iBGP peering
- etc...
This CL slide shows a modest example of the phenomenon.
What's the advantage of doing things this way?
I generally create an additional loopback interface when it's really required:
- a new VRF that doesn't have a loopback, but could benefit from it
- a service that's known by IP and which I might want to move later (like an NTP server or GRE endpoint.)
- an instance of an anycast service (these flat-out can't overlap with a unique-per router address.)
I'm guessing there's a philosophy here that I'm missing out on.
Enlighten me?
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