[c-nsp] Dual-homing scenario - closing summary

[Vincent De Keyzer]

Thanks to all who replied, your suggestions have all been gratefully looked
at.

Apologies for daring to forget, on such an expert mailing list, that more
specific wins over any BGP criterium (incl. local-pref).

Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Prall [mailto:dcp at dcptech.com]
> Sent: jeudi 22 février 2007 14:01
> To: 'Vincent De Keyzer'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Dual-homing scenario
> 
> Do an inbound route-map on the ISP 1 connection to drop all but local AS
> or
> something you like. Do not accept a default from ISP 1. Put in a static
> default pointing to one of the routes you are accepting from ISP 1 with a
> high distance so it only goes in if the default from ISP 2 goes away, and
> the route is available from ISP 1. You could do some EOT stuff to make
> this
> backup static a little more reliable if you wished. For return traffic, I
> would find out if ISP 1 has community based prepending, so that they
> prepend
> on their exit.
> 
> David
>