Re: bgpd best external route

2006-09-28 Thread Tom Beard
Dan Farrell wrote: I'm not sure though... doesn't he want what the external peers sent to his border routers, not just what the border routers decided were the best routes? That's the idea, yes. Tom

Re: bgpd best external route

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Stockwell
Sounds like the behavior you are looking for is route reflection. Eric Tom Beard wrote: Henning Brauer wrote: i honestly don't understand your problem ;( I get told that a lot ;) Our two border routers (I'll call them B1 B2) both have full views made up of various transit

Re: bgpd best external route

2006-09-27 Thread Dan Farrell
Of Eric Stockwell Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:19 PM To: Tom Beard Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: bgpd best external route Sounds like the behavior you are looking for is route reflection. Eric Tom Beard wrote: Henning Brauer wrote: i honestly don't understand your

bgpd best external route

2006-09-25 Thread Tom Beard
Is there any way to mimic the behaviour of the Juniper advertise-best-external-to-internal function within OpenBGPd? I currently have a setup of 4 OpenBSD routers, two with eBGP sessions to upstreams and peers, and a full mesh of iBGP sessions between these and the two internal routers. This all

Re: bgpd best external route

2006-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
I take it you've already adjusted your holdtimes? Dan Farrell Applied Innovations [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Beard Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:18 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: bgpd best

Re: bgpd best external route

2006-09-25 Thread Tom Beard
Dan Farrell wrote: I take it you've already adjusted your holdtimes? Yes, I've got them down to 30, but I don't really think it's the hold times that are causing the problem. We're seeing ~180,000 prefixes from one of the borders and ~12,000 from the other normally. It takes about 2 mins to

Re: bgpd best external route

2006-09-25 Thread Tom Beard
Henning Brauer wrote: i honestly don't understand your problem ;( I get told that a lot ;) Our two border routers (I'll call them B1 B2) both have full views made up of various transit peering connections. They have iBGP peerings with each other and also with both of the access routers (I'll