[c-nsp] VRRP for eBGP

[Trent Lloyd]

By that point isn't it almost pointless running BGP at all?

You'd just basically have a set of static routes with a virtual gateway.

Trent

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:24:18AM +0700, Frank Cisco wrote:
> When one BGP router down, there must be a delay for other router to
> establish BGP, and alsoafter established  we don't know 0.0.0.0/0 will
> be sent  to customer through BGP on first batch or last batch.
> Ask customer to put default route on us also have a problem as we need
> to advertise customer's routes on both routers statically to get
> minimum delay.
> 
> 
> Frank
> 
> On 10/5/06, Brant I. Stevens <branto at branto.com> wrote:
> > Why not send them 0.0.0.0/0 through BGP?  Or a partial+default view?
> >
> >
> > On 10/4/06 4:53 PM, "Frank Cisco" <cisco.frank at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Joseph,
> > >
> > > Is the 1 min 30 sec total time changing from one router the another
> > > router plus downloading the full internet routes ? If our customer
> > > doesn't use multihome to other ISP, we will ask customer to point
> > > default gateway to us to reduce the downtime.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >> Yes they would most likely be off the air durning that time.  But if
> > >> that is a concern for them they need to get a bigger box to handle the
> > >> routing table for two bgp peers.  In tests that I have done with this
> > >> same type of setup (using HSRP tho) you will see a downtime of 1 minute
> > >> and 30 seconds until you can begin to access sites on the internet.
> > >> Though that was when HSRP was running between too routers connected to 2
> > >> differnet ISPs.  In this setup it might be only a few seconds.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Joseph
> > >>
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.