On 3/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Loopback</b> <<a href="mailto:loopback@ezxyz.com">loopback@ezxyz.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All<br><br><br>We would appreciate some ideas for the best method of implementing limited<br>traffic engineering via BGP for our current network. We have two EBGP<br>routers in the same physical location with and IBGP connection between them,
<br>each are dual homed to 3 Tier 1 ISP's and single homed to one other ISP.<br><br><br> Router A<br><br>A -----------10Mb/s-------------- ISP #1<br>A -----------10Mb/s---------------ISP #2<br>A -----------10Mb/s---------------ISP #3
<br>A -----------10Mb/s---------------ISP #10<br>|<br>|<br>| Router B<br>|<br>B -----------10Mb/s-------------- ISP #1<br>B -----------10Mb/s---------------ISP #2<br>B -----------10Mb/s---------------ISP #3<br>B -----------10Mb/s---------------ISP #20
<br><br><br>We currently do not enforce any PBR, our outbound route selection algorithm<br>is default "shortest AS-PATH" destination network with the addition of<br>"BGP Multi-Path" so that any return traffic to routes with equal AS-Path
<br>lengths will balance among all the connections with equal cost.<br><br><br>We are going to upgrade the bandwidth on the "ISP #1" connection to a GbE on<br>both routers and leave the others at the current bandwidth. This will be
<br>much less expensive connection per Mb/s, for that reason we would like to<br>prefer it for the return path for all outbound traffic to any destination<br>that does NOT originate from with the AS of one of our other directly
<br>connected providers. Our thoughts is that approach will combine both<br>routing efficiency and economy.<br><br>The question is the best method to accomplish this using BGP, and preferably<br>without having to coordinate MED's or Community values with our providers.
<br><br>Looking forward to hearing your opinions.<br><br><br>Jack<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>foundry-nsp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
</a><br><a href="http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp">http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Could just add a pre-pend or 2 to each ISP but #1. Most of the non-directly connected networks will likely prefer the shorter AS-PATH. All your directly connected ISP's will, most likely, choose you directly, as customer local-pref is usually set higher than peer.
<br><br>--chip<br><br>-- <br>Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....