[c-nsp] Testing New BGP Provider

[David C Prall]

Mitch,
I have never done this. But, my first thought is to set local preference to
1, forcing the learned routes to be the last used. Putting the routes into a
VRF on the ASR9000 is a non-starter unless running the latest code and you
can define the VRF as a BIG VRF, so I would stay away from that. In IOS "sh
ip bgp neighbors x.x.x.x" displays a lot of information about the neighbor,
not sure if the same for IOS-XR.

David

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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mitch Stoner
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 10:38 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] Testing New BGP Provider

Whats the best way to go about testing a new service provider connection
with BGP on a production router? Should I put the new connection in a VRF
to receive the global routing table and make sure things work as expected?
Or do I simply filter all routes initially and slowly permit a few
individual routes to be sure things look correct? Router is an ASR9000. What
do others typically do?

Thanks!


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