[c-nsp] VRRP for eBGP

Brant I. Stevens branto at branto.com
Wed Oct 4 18:03:37 EDT 2006


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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