On 2013-06-10, at 18:36, "Dennis Burgess" <dmburg...@linktechs.net> wrote:
> I have a network that has three peers, two are at one site and the third > is geographically diverse, and there is NO connection between the two > separate networks. > > > > Currently we are announcing several /24s out one network and other /24s > out the second network, they do not overlap. To the internet this works > fine, however, providers a/b at site1 do not send us the two /24s from > site b.. We have requested them to, but have not seen them come in, > nor do we have any filters that would prohibit them from coming in. > > > > Is this normal? Yeah. > Can we receive those routes even though they are from > our own AS? You can stop them from being suppressed inbound by using "neigh x.x.x.x allowas-in" on a cisco, or "set neigh x.x.x.x allowas-in" on JunOS. > What is the "best practice" in this case? I don't know. Above seems reasonable. I've seen people join their sites with tunnels plumbed to router loopbacks in different sites and run IGPs over them before; this gives them inter-site connectivity which makes the question moot. But it involves tunnels. Joe