[f-nsp] BigIron RX BGP issue

Eric Helm helmwork at ruraltel.net
Wed Sep 24 10:19:13 EDT 2008



Andrea wrote:
> Hi all,
> first of all let me say I'm completely new to BGP.
> I have to set up a BGP instance on my BigIron rx to manage redundancy
> on 2 L2-ethernet link connecting my networks to partner ones.
> 
> On remote site there's a couple of Cisco, I'd like to connect both
> link to my only BigIron, my question is:
> is it possible configure two BigIron ethernet interfaces to act as two
> router? I've thought about use two ve interfaces with different ip, if
> I use
> switch ports I'll get an ethernet loop on the ISP ethernet infrastructure.
> 
> I've searched for some configuration example, but with no luck. Foundy
> documentation is very complete but with poor practical example.
> Can somebody tell me where could I find some examples?
> 
> (In test scenario I have to announce networks 154.54.64.0/24
> 156.54.70.0/24 172.29.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/16 and listen 172.19.0.0/16
> 172.20.0.0/16 192.168.0.0/16)
> 
> Any hint is welcome.
> Thanks in advance
> Andrew
> _______________________________________________

interface ethernet 1/1
 route-only
 ip address X.X.X.X/30

interface ethernet 1/2
 route-only
 ip address Y.Y.Y.Y/30

..etc

/Eric



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