RE: BGP and one backup link [7:33433]

2002-01-30 Thread Ian Henderson
Some ISPs can be evil and ignore path stuffing for customers - happens here in .au a lot. One way I've found around it that works very well is BGP Conditional Advertisement. Basically it can 'see' if a route is in the routing table, and if it isn't, advertise more routes. So, if you stop seeing t

RE: BGP and one backup link [7:33433]

2002-01-28 Thread Thomas Crowe
Why not just use floating static routes? With only one active exit point, I don't see the reason for burdening your router with the BGP routing table, unless you are just receiving aggregates from your provider. Even then the floating static's should work. __ Thomas

RE: BGP and one backup link [7:33433]

2002-01-28 Thread Alejandro Acosta
idea? Alejandro Acosta -Original Message- From: Thomas Crowe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28/01/02 12:45 Subject: RE: BGP and one backup link [7:33433] Why not just use floating static routes? With only one active exit point, I don't see the reason for burdening your router

Re: BGP and one backup link [7:33433]

2002-01-28 Thread Darrell Newcomb
r BGP configutarion. > > Any idea? > > Alejandro Acosta > > > > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Crowe > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28/01/02 12:45 > Subject: RE: BGP and one backup link [7:33433] > > Why not just use floating static routes? Wi

RE: BGP and one backup link [7:33433]

2002-01-29 Thread Joseph Brunner
Sometimes As prepending won't work.. your best bet is to telnet to route-views.oregon-ix.net (public route server) and do a show ip bgp with your as # (then you will know who is using your prepended path to get there. Most likely one peer of your backup link providers, sets local pref or metric o