If an IBGP link is possible then you could automate this with the proper
attributes. > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:08:32 +0000> From: nav...@calpop.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Failover solution using BGP> > Hi,> > I would
appreciate insight and experience for the following situation.> > I have a
client that would like to announce a /18 & /19 over BGP in> Sacramento and LA,
us being the second location in LA. Our location> will be a failover location
incase Sacramento goes down.> > They want failover for extreme cases when
they're completly down in> Sacramento. They have strict requirements so that
traffic to their blocks> should exclusively go to Sacramento or LA.> > This
seems difficult to automate and they are aware of this. They will> contact
their provider to stop announcing the blocks and subsequently> contact us to
announce their routes.> > I am wondering is there a better way to approaching
the situation> without resorting to announcing the routes when the client calls
us> and tells us to failover. This seems to be the inherent problem aswell>
because the customer wants this to be a manual process.> > -- > Naveen Nathan>
> To understand the human mind, understand self-deception. - Anon>
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