[c-nsp] Rate limiting questions

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

To make it even uglier, you can configure (using eem again) pbr under the upstream interface to send 
all these requests to the appropriate router, bypassing the connected routes.

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Tassos


Phil Mayers wrote on 28/10/2007 2:27 μμ:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 18:02 +0300, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
>> One ugly way to do it would be to create an eem applet on both routers which would do the following:
>>
>> 1) watch for syslog messages "STANDBY ....Active->xxx" and then "decrease" the metric of these 
>> redistributed connected routes through configuring the local router
>> 2) watch for syslog messages "STANDBY ....xxx->Active" and then "increase" the metric of these 
>> redistributed connected routes through configuring the local router
> 
> That only gets you halfway. The standby router still has a connected
> route which CANNOT be overridden by a routing protocol route; so in my
> original diagram if packets even *hit* the standby, they'll go out the
> 100meg link as opposed to across the gigE link to the active router
> 
> It is also, as you say, very very ugly.
>