Hi, On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:11:45PM +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote: > > ...traffic from "offsite" will always be routed out of router-slave; > > no amount of fiddling with route metrics will help you there. You > > could do something awful like have the HSRP master advertise more > > specifics, but honestly... yuck... > > I a tactless attempt to digress, an MPLS VPN setup would actually give > you the ability to force "router-master" to receive all traffic from > upstream. Having the router-master use a higher local-preference for the > prefix in MP-BGP would force others to use the LSP terminating at > router-master.
... and if the ethernet link on router-master goes down, you still have
all the traffic on the wrong box.
HSRP/VRRP's inability on IOS to just make the interface disappear from
the IP routing table (and thus from IGP/BGP's view) when passive
[configurably so] just sucks.
But certain vendors just don't listen (BFD on SVI, anyone?).
gert
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