Advertise all IPs on all providers, take full routes on all providers. Increase 
backhauls if necessary. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ty Featherling" <tyfeatherl...@gmail.com> 
To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 11:10:32 AM 
Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 

How would you do it then? 

-Ty 


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Mike Hammett 
<butch-mikro...@ics-il.net>wrote: 

> Well, if he's only taking a single provider at each location and only 
> using it as fail-over for a couple subnets, I'm not sure he needs full 
> routes. 
> 
> I would take full routes, but I wouldn't be doing it the way he is either. 
> *shrugs* 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 
> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> http://www.ics-il.com 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> 
> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> 
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 11:00:39 AM 
> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> 
> If you have the hardware for full, do it. 
> 
> Do you know the differences? 
> 
> Josh Luthman 
> Office: 937-552-2340 
> Direct: 937-552-2343 
> 1100 Wayne St 
> Suite 1337 
> Troy, OH 45373 
> On Mar 21, 2014 11:56 AM, "Ty Featherling" <tyfeatherl...@gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
> 
> > Any advice on default vs full or connected routes? 
> > 
> > -Ty 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Simon Westlake <si...@powercode.com 
> > >wrote: 
> > 
> > > Right, that's what I meant. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 3/20/2014 9:17 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> > > 
> > >> All that comes in the other route is what you advertise out of it. If 
> he 
> > >> only advertises a different /21 on each side and a /24 from the 
> opposite 
> > >> block out of both sides, then only whatever he's advertising out of 
> that 
> > >> interface will work. 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> ----- 
> > >> Mike Hammett 
> > >> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> > >> http://www.ics-il.com 
> > >> 
> > >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >> 
> > >> From: "Simon Westlake" <si...@powercode.com> 
> > >> To: mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com 
> > >> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:33:18 PM 
> > >> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> > >> 
> > >> That will make things more complicated if you advertise space out of 
> > >> both routers. If one goes down, all inbound traffic will start coming 
> in 
> > >> through the other router, whether you want it or not. 
> > >> 
> > >> On 3/20/2014 8:07 AM, Ty Featherling wrote: 
> > >> 
> > >>> Yes I have started the process with both upstreams. I do intend to 
> > spend 
> > >>> some time on filters as well, thanks. 
> > >>> 
> > >>> Mike, the two networks each have 300Mbps feeds to the internet but 
> only 
> > >>> 100Mbps between the two networks via wireless backhaul. For now at 
> > least 
> > >>> I 
> > >>> only want failover for ourselves, some key servers, 2 School 
> > Districts, a 
> > >>> hospital, and city/county government. 
> > >>> 
> > >>> -Ty 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Casey Mills <wkm...@gmail.com> 
> wrote: 
> > >>> 
> > >>> It has been a while since I set one of these up... But when I did 
> this 
> > >>>> there wasn't a need to run BGP between the edge routers. The 
> > advertised 
> > >>>> networks should propagate through OSPF. 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> I'm sure you have already taken care of this, but make sure your 
> > >>>> upstream 
> > >>>> providers will allow you to advertise your new IP space. If they 
> are a 
> > >>>> good 
> > >>>> upstream provider they should be using some filtering and will need 
> to 
> > >>>> specifically allow this IP range from your ASN. 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Like I said it has been a while, but go ahead and setup filters 
> going 
> > >>>> both 
> > >>>> ways for all of the internal IP ranges. I had Cox trying to send me 
> > some 
> > >>>> internal IPs at one time. If we had been using those IPs internally 
> it 
> > >>>> would have caused a mess. 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Casey 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Mike Hammett < 
> > >>>> butch-mikro...@ics-il.net 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> wrote: 
> > >>>>> That would work, but I'm not sure no service is better than slow 
> > >>>>> service. 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> ----- 
> > >>>>> Mike Hammett 
> > >>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> > >>>>> http://www.ics-il.com 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> From: "Ty Featherling" <tyfeatherl...@gmail.com> 
> > >>>>> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> 
> > >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:22:22 PM 
> > >>>>> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> I don't want, because I can't accomodate, failover of A to B and B 
> to 
> > >>>>> A. 
> > >>>>> What I do have the bandwidth between networks to do is fail over a 
> > >>>>> subset 
> > >>>>> (VIP customers) of A to B and vice versa. My guess is to advertise 
> a 
> > >>>>> /21 
> > >>>>> via each and a /24 from each /21 on both for the fail over to be 
> for 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>> those 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> /24s specifically. 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> -Ty 
> > >>>>> On Mar 19, 2014 8:01 PM, "Mike Hammett" <butch-mikro...@ics-il.net 
> > 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>> wrote: 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> I'm not sure what your plan is with that /24. If you advertise that 
> > /20 
> > >>>>>> out both providers, the entire Internet can reach that /20 from 
> > either 
> > >>>>>> provider. If either provider fails, your entire address space is 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>> available 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> on the other. No need to do anything except contact your failed 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>> upstream 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> to 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> get the connection repaired. If you want to weight traffic based 
> on 
> > >>>>>> (relative) geography, advertise the /20 out both providers in 
> > addition 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>> to 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> one /21 out provider A and one /21 out provider B. Traffic will 
> > prefer 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>> the 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> /19 until that provider fails. 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> ----- 
> > >>>>>> Mike Hammett 
> > >>>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> > >>>>>> http://www.ics-il.com 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> From: "Ty Featherling" <tyfeatherl...@gmail.com> 
> > >>>>>> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> 
> > >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:51:18 PM 
> > >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> We have a /20 assignment that I will be using on both sides. I 
> > intend 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>> to 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> have a /24 on each side that will fail over. 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> -Ty 
> > >>>>>> On Mar 19, 2014 5:19 PM, "Mike Hammett" < 
> butch-mikro...@ics-il.net> 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>> wrote: 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> Just as an example, if you have a /23 from both providers, 
> announce 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> that 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> /23 on both connections. Then, advertise the two /24s comprising 
> the 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> /23 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> on 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> the ISP you want to use it from. I believe BGP will take a longer 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> prefix 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> before a prepend. The smallest you can advertise, though, is a 
> /24, 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> so 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> if 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> your blocks are smaller, that won't work. 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> ----- 
> > >>>>>>> Mike Hammett 
> > >>>>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> > >>>>>>> http://www.ics-il.com 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> From: "Ty Featherling" <tyfeatherl...@gmail.com> 
> > >>>>>>> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> 
> > >>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:11:43 PM 
> > >>>>>>> Subject: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> I am ready to begin turning up BGP on both of my edge routers and 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> start 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> advertising my new IPv4 assignment. I am want to make sure I 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> understand 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> things clearly first. 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> These were setup as two separate networks, each with their own 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> upstream. 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> We 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> built out between them and got a backhaul between the two so we 
> > could 
> > >>>>>>> manage the far network from the one we have our office already 
> on. 
> > I 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> turned 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> up OSPF recently on all routers and the routes for both networks 
> > are 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> shared 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> between the two edge routers. 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Now we have our own IP space and would like to start 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> advertising/using 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> it. 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> That seems easy enough. Turn BGP on between the edge routers and 
> > our 
> > >>>>>>> upstream providers and advertise some addresses on one and some 
> on 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> the 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> other. The real fun begins when we want to have fail-over between 
> the 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> two. 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Initially this will only be for some VIP clients like ISDs and 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> Hospitals. 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> In the event of an outage upstream of either network I would like 
> to 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> make 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> sure these clients stay up across the backhaul between networks. 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> I believe the way to accomplish this is just to announce the 
> space 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> used 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> by 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> those clients to both upstream ASes and just prepend the ones 
> that 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> normally 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> live on the other network. That way should the upstream go down, 
> > the 
> > >>>>>>> "farther" path will become active. Beyond that I just need to 
> have 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> iBGP 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>> running between my two edge routers so those routes are known. Does 
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> this 
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> sound right? 
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