[j-nsp] Alternatives to floating static routes?

[George Yalamov]

Hi all,

What are Customer 1 and 2 routers?  If they are Juniper  will be great, 
and your can use BFD and static route.
 
As I know cisco series higher than 76xx support BFD but not with static 
route.


Regards
George


Dario wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We need to develop a solution to provide redundancy for two of our clientes, connected to us via our 
> Cisco Catalyst 2950.
>
> This is the topology:
>                                   [FastEth]
> 	Router Customer 1	------------- |                   [GigaEth]
> 					         |  Cat 2950 --------------- Juniper M40e
> 	Router Customer 2	------------- |              
>                                   [FastEth]
>
> Right now we have static routes in our Juniper to connect with each customer. The customers have the
> posibility to connect their routers. Each one request us to reroute its networks via the other customer when
> its link fails.
>
> We first think in floating static routes, two routes for each customer, the actual one and other via the 
> other customer with more metric.
>
> But it'll no work because if for example the link between the Customer 1 and our CAT 2950 fails, our 
> Juniper see the link with the CAT 2950 up (no possibility to configure keepalives), then the active route 
> is the static route without metric, it never changes to the floating route.
>
> BGP (using prepends,...) is a solution but we prefer another one if possible. Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks and best regards,
>
> 	Dario D.
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