Michael,

One think to look for is recursion of next-hops. What is the next hop for
the route to 145.45.35.35?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Michael Lipsey <[email protected]>wrote:

>  So – having spent far too much time on one single task I am still left
> with some problematic behavior.
>
>
>
> The idea is that each router has a pair of loopbacks addressed 10.2.x.x and
> 10.3.x.x.
>
>
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> The task is to configure BGP so that 10.2.x.x circles clockwise and
> 10.3.x.x circles counter clockwise.
>
>
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> Fun eh? Far from impossible and I did it first with local preference
> adjustment and then per the proctor guide’s solution (weight). Both worked
> about the same and I ran into about the same problems at different points.
> I think with this small of a network local preference and weight are about
> equal in effect since each AS most of time is a single router.
>
>
>
> Except in one spot – that’s where the major problems are but those are
> workable too.
>
>
>
> Right now I’m just getting super odd behavior on R4 which has a peer with
> R6 and Cat 1 (145.45.35.35).
>
>
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> Here is what I’m seeing – the routes in the route table look correct for my
> route to 10.2.5.5 and the BGP table looks right too.
>
>
>
> R4(config-router)#do sho ip bgp 10.2.5.5
>
> BGP routing table entry for 10.2.5.5/32, version 55
>
> Paths: (1 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
>
>   Advertised to update-groups:
>
>      1
>
>   89 5
>
>     145.45.35.35 (metric 20) from 145.45.35.35 (145.45.35.35)
>
>       Origin IGP, localpref 100, weight 32000, valid, external, best
>
> R4(config-router)#do sho ip route 10.2.5.5
>
> Routing entry for 10.2.5.5/32
>
>   Known via "bgp 4", distance 20, metric 0
>
>   Tag 89, type external
>
>   Last update from 145.45.35.35 00:06:29 ago
>
>   Routing Descriptor Blocks:
>
>   * 145.45.35.35, from 145.45.35.35, 00:06:29 ago
>
>       Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
>
>       AS Hops 2
>
>       Route tag 89
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>
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> When I do a trace route though I get this:
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>
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> R4(config-router)#do traceroute 10.2.5.5
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>
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> Type escape sequence to abort.
>
> Tracing the route to 10.2.5.5
>
>
>
>   1 145.45.245.6 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec
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>   2 145.45.245.4 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec
>
>   3  *  *  *
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>   4
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> Which is clearly wrong – I can’t even fathom why it’s trying to send the
> packets that way when the routes say do something else entirely. Maybe I’ve
> fried myself and I can’t see the issue.
>
>
>
> O_o I hate this lab.
>
>
>
> -Mike
>
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