Re: BGP Traffic Engineering - Active\Passive

2021-05-21 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hello First one needs to remember that it is always the sender that ultimately decides which path to use. You can use route-map or import policy to override local pref for each matched received prefix to steer exactly which ISP you want to use on a per prefix basis. But so can everyone else. Say

RE: BGP Traffic Engineering - Active\Passive

2021-05-21 Thread t...@pelican.org
On Friday, 21 May, 2021 16:13, "nanoguser100 via NANOG" said: > Correct me if I'm wrong here but I *could* take full table + AS on B > meaning > the traffic will prefer 'B' due it it having a more specific route since I'm > only > taking default from A (despite local pref). That will

Re: BGP Traffic Engineering - Active\Passive

2021-05-21 Thread Chriztoffer Hansen
On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 17:13, nanoguser100 via NANOG wrote: > If I'm unable to do that will most provider prepend on your behalf so that > ISP-A would add the prepends for only? For this part, you will have to investigate which BGP standard/extended/large communities your ISP-A/B supports.

BGP Traffic Engineering - Active\Passive

2021-05-21 Thread nanoguser100 via NANOG
Nanog, At my organization we historically would get T1 ISPs at our POPs and take full table + default. BGP would simply "do it's thing" and for the most part everything worked out. There are instances where we have had heavily lopsided traffic even though AS path length is the same. To make