Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-03-01 Thread Mack McBride
advertisements more specific than IGP I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I am having problems balancing inbound traffic, besides prepends which don't seem to be helping anymore, I have heard that announcing my networks more specifically could also influence inbound traffic. My question

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-03-01 Thread James Urwiller
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I am having problems balancing inbound traffic, besides prepends which don't seem to be helping anymore, I have heard that announcing my networks more specifically could also

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-03-01 Thread James Urwiller
...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of James Urwiller Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:12 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I am having problems balancing inbound traffic

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-03-01 Thread Mack McBride
Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of James Urwiller Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:12 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-03-01 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:27:15PM +, James Urwiller wrote: Community strings don't effect inbound traffic, right? They do, if your upstreams support that (hey, upstream, please make *this* route local-pref 70, and do 3x prepend on *that* route to DECIX). Is there really no good way

[c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-02-28 Thread James Urwiller
I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I am having problems balancing inbound traffic, besides prepends which don't seem to be helping anymore, I have heard that announcing my networks more specifically could also influence inbound traffic. My question is, for example… If I have a /23 that

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-02-28 Thread Andrew Miehs
You will need to have the two /24s in your IGP for BGP to announce them. Advertising your 2x 24s on the one link, and the 1x 23 on the other link would cause all the traffic to pass via your 2x /24 link - more specific. Have you tried just announcing the same /23 to both providers? How bad is the

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-02-28 Thread Scott Granados
So more specifics are sort of a sledge hammer approach. If you announce more specifics over one link, assuming a prefix that long is widely readvertised, you'll reroute all the traffic not just have a small effect. (more specifics always win) (also it's bad form to not announce unified

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-02-28 Thread Randy
advertisements more specific than IGP To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 7:11 PM I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I am having problems balancing inbound traffic, besides prepends which don't seem to be helping anymore, I have heard

Re: [c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

2013-02-28 Thread Ryan Rawdon
On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:11 PM, James Urwiller wrote: I have a BGP multi-homed invironment that I am having problems balancing inbound traffic, besides prepends which don't seem to be helping anymore, I have heard that announcing my networks more specifically could also influence inbound