Hi,
I stand corrected........ I gave a soln purely on
what is technically possible. Yes, you are right
.....Advertising specifics does not make much sense.
Rgds,
Edward
--- Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:03:25PM -0800, Edward S.
> Desouza wrote:
> > You can influence incoming traffic in the
> scenario
> > that you say using two techniques :
> > 1. Advertise part of your pool on both links and
> > advertise a less specific ( aggregate route ) to
> both.
> > This will help in case your link to one ISP fails.
>
> This shouldn't be done. Never advertise more
> specifics unless there's
> a hard reason to - load balancing isn't. Look at
> the sorry state of the
> global BGP table before giving advice like this.
>
> > 2. Do an AS Path Prepend
>
> 3. Check with the upstream provider(s) what kind of
> "community" settings
> exist to control incoming traffic. This can
> often be finer grained
> than prepending.
>
> gert
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