Yep, you're right, Alexander. Thanks a lot for your feedback!
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Roman.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 2:16 PM Alexander Zubkov <gr...@qrator.net> wrote:
> But than it'll be replaced on the router1 and it will withdraw the
> announce, and so on...
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:38 PM Roman Romanyak <roman.roman...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to do a route manipulation on the route server and send a route
> back also to router1 with a local pref via ISP1.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 2:43 AM Alexander Zubkov <gr...@qrator.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thank you for a good description. But what's your problem there now?
> >> You receive x.y.z.0/24 from Router1 and send it to Router2. What do
> >> you want to achive and are missing?
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:13 PM Roman Romanyak <
> roman.roman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Alexander, thank you for your feedback.
> >> >
> >> > Here is a diagram:
> >> >
> >> > [ ISP1 ] [ ISP2 ] [ ISP3 ] [
> ISP4 ]
> >> > | | |
> |
> >> > | | |
> |
> >> > [ Router 1 ] [ Router 2
> ]
> >> > |
> |
> >> > |
> |
> >> > [ Layer 2 Switch
> ]
> >> > |
> >> > |
> >> > [ Bird Route Server ]
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Router 1 and 2 do not peer directly. There is OSPF running, so all
> nodes learn a route to other nodes connected interfaces.
> >> > Both routers peer to route-server and are route reflection clients.
> >> >
> >> > There is a route x.y.z.0/24 coming from from each ISP. Router 1
> chooses ISP2 (because of as-path), what path Router 2 is choosing doesn't
> matter.
> >> >
> >> > I need to force traffic to x.y.z.0/24 via ISP1.
> >> > In order to do that, I'm matching the route x.y.z.0/24 in the import
> filter on the route-server (maching a route itself and also ISP1 ASN in
> the path) and setting the local preference to 150.
> >> > Then this route is re-advertised to Router 2, which will select it as
> best, because of iBGP and high local-preference. The route is not announced
> back to Router 1, because it came from there.
> >> >
> >> > An alternative way, to do that is to mach a route on Router 1,
> increase a local-pref there and that route will be leared by router 2
> through the route-server. But I'd like to do that on route-server to use a
> centralized place for these kinds of things.
> >> >
> >> > Here is a show route output from a route server:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > bird> show route for x.y.z.0/24 all
> >> > x.y.z.0/24 via 10.1.1.65 on em2 [edge_r1 18:25:09] * (100/11)
> [AS123i]
> >> > Type: BGP unicast univ
> >> > BGP.origin: IGP
> >> > BGP.as_path: 111 888 333 999
> >> > BGP.next_hop: 1.1.1.1
> >> > BGP.med: 0
> >> > BGP.local_pref: 150
> >> > via 10.1.1.65 on em2 [edge_r1 2019-01-17]
> (100/11) [AS123i]
> >> > Type: BGP unicast univ
> >> > BGP.origin: IGP
> >> > BGP.as_path: 222 777 999
> >> > BGP.next_hop: 2.2.2.2
> >> > BGP.med: 0
> >> > BGP.local_pref: 100
> >> > via 10.1.1.66 on em2 [edge_r2 2019-01-16]
> (100/11) [AS123i]
> >> > Type: BGP unicast univ
> >> > BGP.origin: IGP
> >> > BGP.as_path: 333 666 999
> >> > BGP.next_hop: 3.3.3.3
> >> > BGP.med: 0
> >> > BGP.local_pref: 100
> >> > via 10.1.1.67 on em2 [edge_r2 2019-01-17]
> (100/11) [AS123i]
> >> > Type: BGP unicast univ
> >> > BGP.origin: IGP
> >> > BGP.as_path: 444 555 999
> >> > BGP.next_hop: 4.4.4.4
> >> > BGP.med: 0
> >> > BGP.local_pref: 100
> >> >
> >> > bird>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:17 PM Alexander Zubkov <gr...@qrator.net>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I do not completely understand your setup. You better show route
> >> >> tables from all the routers and what is announced in which direction.
> >> >>
> >> >> > So I get the desired effect on the second router, it will learn
> and install a route with high local pref. The first router where the
> desired transit link is connected by default selects another transit link
> because of the shorter as-path.
> >> >>
> >> >> How this could happen? If you got this route on the route reflector
> >> >> from the first router, than it should have this route in the required
> >> >> direction. If it had this route to another transit link, it would
> >> >> announce this to the route reflector. There is no reason to propagate
> >> >> the routes back to the peer, because they are already there.I think
> >> >> you can do some tricks, but first we need to understand what do you
> >> >> want to achieve.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 7:23 PM Roman Romanyak <
> roman.roman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hello Bird users,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Does anyone know if there is a way to announce a BGP route back to
> the router it was received from.
> >> >> > I need to do this for the following scenario.
> >> >> > Lets say there are two routers with 2 transit links on each with
> full view tables and Bird server as a route-reflector. There is a need to
> force traffic to a specific destination via one of the ISPs, so I match the
> route in the import filter and set a local pref on it. But that will only
> make the route server announce the route with a high local pref to a second
> router, where the desired transit isn't directly connected. So I get the
> desired effect on the second router, it will learn and install a route with
> high local pref. The first router where the desired transit link is
> connected by default selects another transit link because of the shorter
> as-path.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Here is the import filter snippet (x.y.z.0/24 is a dest route,
> as-path 1234 is a directly connected ISP on router-1:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > if source = RTS_BGP && net = x.y.z.0/24 && bgp_path.first
> = 1234 then {
> >> >> > bgp_local_pref = 150;
> >> >> > accept;
> >> >> > }
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I think that bird doesn't do that because the protocol matches on
> the peer and on the route.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks!
>
