[c-nsp] Different Traffic thru BGP links

[Zaheer Aziz]

At 04:43 PM 11/23/2004 +0100, Brian Turnbow wrote:
>
>If your using 2 routers twords the customer you can set up traffic shaping 
>tunnels to each router using MPLS, one for the direct peer traffic, one 
>for internet and
>use local weight to route twords the customer, that way you could still 
>have redundancy

if you use VRFs to separate link A,B, and C then it is difficult to fall 
back to global routing table that is where the redundancy issue comes up.
Perhaps Anderson should explain his topology a bit more(diagram) so we 
would all be on the same page. Currently we are not.

Thanks
Zaheer


>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Zaheer Aziz
>Sent: martedì 23 novembre 2004 16.08
>To: BRA-SAO-Tomaiz,Anderson Goncalves
>Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Different Traffic thru BGP links
>Importance: High
>
>At 04:23 PM 11/22/2004 -0200, BRA-SAO-Tomaiz,Anderson Goncalves wrote:
> >Hi Guys,
>
>
>This is how I understood your problem,
>
>You have ISP connections on Link C and D.
>
>You have two providers on say link A and B that must use Link C of your ISP.
>
>Link D of your ISP must only be used by your customers and others for 
>general Internet traffic.
>
>PBR on A and B was your first thought but due to high amount on traffic on 
>Link A and B, it could be an issue.
>
>You could use MPLS_VPN and put A, B and C in a VRF but you must understand 
>that you will loose redundancy, for not using link D in case of failures 
>on C. You could solve this with lots of vrf aware statics as backups but 
>it may not scale.
>
>If my understanding of your topology is right then Local_pref that others 
>have suggested will not work because all traffic will follow Link C which 
>is what you dont desire.
>
>Thanks
>Zaheer
>
>
> >I have a situation where an ISP (running BGP) will have two links with
> >my AS backbone.
> >In one of them it must allow to pass only peering traffic (from two
> >other providers that I have direct connection) and thru the other one
> >normal internet traffic.
> >To route traffic inbound my AS is simple. Only using local-preference
> >in the BGP at the customer side, but the problem is how to route
> >traffic outbound my AS to the customer side, since the prefixes
> >announced are keeped at the same routing table and are the same on both 
> links.
> >Use PBR is not desirable, cause there are too many prefixes and to much
> >traffic thru these connections. I'm also running MPLS VPN in my
> >backbone, if it has some solution based on this.
> >
> >Does anyone has a solution or see it before?
> >
> >Thanks for help!
> >
> >Anderson
> >
> >
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