Hello again,
Thank you for the replies.
It's a simple setup with a private ASN and a default from upstream, so
it's more advertising the inbound path that is the issue. Since the ASN is
private, I can't do something like AS path padding to strongly prefer one
path over the other. The backup w
Hello,
What also might be an idea is too keep both sessions up all the time,
but give the routes recieved from the backup connection a lower
preference. If you receive the same routes from both connections, then
the routes learned from the primary connection will be used. If this
connection f
Hello!
This is not possible at all. We may implement something like this in
near future, yet since it heavily depends on some now-unstable code,
you'd be better for now to do it by an external script.
You can also, instead of calling birdc show route repeatedly, use
something like 'ip monito
Hi, I've written a new blog post on BGP performance testing, this time
using filters.
https://elegantnetwork.github.io/posts/bgperf-first-try-at-filtering/. Let
me know how I could make this better and more representative.
thanks,
Justin
Hi all,
I want to enable a backup BGP session (or perhaps, keep the session up and
change the import/export filters) only when the main peer goes down
(default disappears)
Conceptually, I want to do something like this:
if net = 0.0.0.0/0 then {
if from = x.x.x.x then { # x.x.x.x = main
