RE: bgp best path compare-routerid implementation example

2009-09-25 Thread Austin Wilson
metrics will interfere with what you are trying to accomplish with a lower metric. Dani suggested changing the origin code so it wouldn't affect what you are trying to do with MEDs. Everything else is dependent on how you want to manage your network. Austin Wilson From: devang patel [mailto:

RE: bgp best path compare-routerid implementation example

2009-09-25 Thread Austin Wilson
mplete BGP traffic engineering solution. Doing the things listed there and elsewhere will mean you won't even have to use this command. Austin Wilson -Original Message- From: devang patel [mailto:devan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:24 PM To: nanog@nanog

RE: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Austin Wilson
If you don't have control over the other site my best advice would be to use the BGP communities your transit providers give you. If you setup your clients routes to a lower Local Perf on your transit provider's network, your transit provider will always pick the primary provider's routes first.