[c-nsp] slow convergence on edge BGP routers

Pete Templin petelists at templin.org
Fri Feb 27 13:59:00 EST 2015


Shift the traffic before you drop the connection:

Advertise your routes with the right mix of communities to get ISP 1 to 
prefer ISP2 instead of your direct link. That'll cause their propagation 
of your announcement to withdraw in a more graceful manner.
Likewise, depreference the routes learned from ISP 1 so EDGE1 prefers 
the path that EDGE2 has.

Probably takes 8-15 minutes of advance work to save ~15 seconds of 
outage, but therefore probably worthwhile.


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