[c-nsp] VRRP for eBGP

[Joseph Jackson]

Correct,  the time frame was waiting for BGP to update.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Cisco [mailto:cisco.frank at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:54 PM
> To: Joseph Jackson
> Cc: Ed Ravin; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] VRRP for eBGP
> 
> 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
> >
>