[c-nsp] Forcing routes

[Gary Roberton]

Thanks everyone, I presented two solutions - use always compare med as
preferrable but if we cant add to config of router, use prepending.

Thanks.



On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> you can use bgp always-compare-med.
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094925.shtml
>
> Regards,
> Diogo
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Gary Roberton <gary.ciscomail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a customer who is multihomed to my network.  He has RouterX.  I
>> have
>> R1 and R2 connected to his RouterX.  My R1 is in AS1 and my R2 is in AS2.
>>  I
>> want to sent him a BGP advertisement in such a way that he always prefers
>> to
>> use R1.
>>
>> I cannot use MEDs as the AS numbers of my R1 and R2 are different.
>> I cannot use local preference as I am not allowed to change anything on
>> his
>> route (don't ask just take it as a given).
>> My path lengths are the same.
>>
>> How can I force his router to always choose my R1 path as the best one?
>>
>>
>> Once I have done this I then want to be able to turn this on or off based
>> on
>> a Tunnel on R1 being up (which I guess will be object tracking) but until
>> I
>> know how to solve the first part - I can't tackle the second part.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
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