Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-02 Thread Mike Hammett
I wouldn't call that product marketing. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Scott Weeks" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 6:00:38 PM Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-02 Thread Scott Weeks
but I don't do email like that why is it hard to read? it's really hard to read email this way. because it's out of order umm, ok. I fixed it for you - You've obviously never been hounded by sales folks scraping this list that believe they should never

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Mike Hammett
customers. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Scott Weeks" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 8:44:41 PM Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? - Original Message -

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message - From: "Scott Weeks" --- n...@border6.com wrote: From: Pawel Rybczyk platform where we included new feature called That might be interesting for you. --- This might be interesting for you. https://www.nanog.org/list

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 01, 2015, at 17:46 , William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Baldur Norddahl > wrote: >> This is only a problem if you use so called tier 1 transit providers. >> >> The smaller fish in the pond have multiple transits themselves and will >> there by always have an alternat

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > This is only a problem if you use so called tier 1 transit providers. > > The smaller fish in the pond have multiple transits themselves and will > there by always have an alternative route available. Hi Baldur, Cogent is not a tier 1 (not

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > After studying failure modes and attempting to optimize BGP using partial > routing tables, I am of the opinion that BGP with a full routing table to > directly connected devices is by far the best way to gain the availability > benefits of BGP

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Baldur Norddahl
This is only a problem if you use so called tier 1 transit providers. The smaller fish in the pond have multiple transits themselves and will there by always have an alternative route available. Regards Baldur Den 01/06/2015 22.32 skrev "William Herrin" : > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Blake

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Blake Hudson
William Herrin wrote on 6/1/2015 3:28 PM: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: A gateway of last resort, also called a backup default route, will take care of partitions No, Blake, it won't. A partition means one of your ISPs has no route to the destination. Route the packet to

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > A gateway of last resort, also called a backup default route, will take care > of partitions No, Blake, it won't. A partition means one of your ISPs has no route to the destination. Route the packet to that ISP via a default route and it gets

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Jeremy Malli
ic routes on the BGP routers seems counter intuitive on the face of it. From: NANOG on behalf of Baldur Norddahl Sent: 01 June 2015 16:49 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? On 1 June 2015 at 15:29, Blake Hudson wrote: Something to point out: Sometimes t

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Blake Hudson
face of it. From: NANOG on behalf of Baldur Norddahl Sent: 01 June 2015 16:49 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? On 1 June 2015 at 15:29, Blake Hudson wrote: Something to point out: Sometimes the device you c

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Maqbool Hashim
___ From: NANOG on behalf of Baldur Norddahl Sent: 01 June 2015 16:49 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? On 1 June 2015 at 15:29, Blake Hudson wrote: > Something to point out: Sometimes the device you connect to is up, but has &

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 1 June 2015 at 15:29, Blake Hudson wrote: > Something to point out: Sometimes the device you connect to is up, but has > no reachability to the rest of the world. Using static routes is.. well.. > static. There are a few cases (such as the one mentioned) where a static > route can be somewhat

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Mike Hammett
Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Scott Weeks" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 3:36:46 AM Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? --- n...@border6.com wrote: From: Pawel Rybczyk

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Blake Hudson
Baldur Norddahl wrote on 5/31/2015 1:13 PM: Remember this: 1) for inbound traffic there will be no difference at all. 2) routers will ignore a static route if the link is down. If you can get BFD from the providers then even better. So you can emulate 99% of what you get with full routes by lo

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-06-01 Thread Scott Weeks
--- n...@border6.com wrote: From: Pawel Rybczyk platform where we included new feature called That might be interesting for you. --- This might be interesting for you. https://www.nanog.org/list Please read #5 before going further. Product Eva

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Pawel Rybczyk
Hi, We've have recently published new version of our BGP routing optimization platform where we included new feature called: vRouter. That might be interesting for you. The vRouter provides route summarization support to BGP routers whose TCAM is unable to hold the entire actual feed of Internet

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Jason Canady
If your traffic is small, you could setup a VyOS box. You can still get redundancy by having two switches, each one connected to an upstream provider receiving a default route. Then hookup your VyOS router to each switch and receive full routes to that. You will need a /29 subnet from your p

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Remember this: 1) for inbound traffic there will be no difference at all. 2) routers will ignore a static route if the link is down. If you can get BFD from the providers then even better. So you can emulate 99% of what you get with full routes by loading in static routes. A simple example would

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Michael
Well, we´re using 2x Cisco 3560X switches for simple inbound/outbound load sharing with our provider for years (http://wiki.nil.com/EBGP_load_sharing). There´s no need for us going full routes... Regards, Michael

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Maqbool Hashim wrote: > We are an enterprise that are eBGP multihoming to two ISPs. We wish to load > balance in inbound and outbound traffic thereby using our capacity as > efficiently as possible. My current feeling is that it would be crazy for us > to take a

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Mark Tinka
On 31/May/15 14:09, Maqbool Hashim wrote: > > I am just not sure of exactly how to define the "partial" routing table > criteria to our two providers. Should we just take routes for each provider > and their peers and a default from both? Since you can't take a full feed from either upstream,

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
there are other reasons or needs, that can sway the decision in one direction or the other). :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom - Original Message - > From: "Maqbool Hashim" > To: "Joseph Jackson" , nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 8:09:

RE: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Maqbool Hashim
Just for the hardware and the planning required for migrating to new hardware human resource etc. -Original Message- From: Faisal Imtiaz [mailto:fai...@snappytelecom.net] Sent: 31 May 2015 14:01 To: Maqbool Hashim Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
supp...@snappytelecom.net - Original Message - > From: "Maqbool Hashim" > To: "Faisal Imtiaz" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 8:10:51 AM > Subject: RE: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? > > Thanks, > > So we just ne

RE: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Maqbool Hashim
@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? If you wish to do outbound traffic engineering, and want to take advantage of best paths to different networks (outbound), then you have to take full routes. Or putting it another way Taking full routes offers the most

RE: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Maqbool Hashim
st/inconvenience of upgrading existing hardware. Thanks -Original Message- From: Joseph Jackson [mailto:jjack...@aninetworks.net] Sent: 31 May 2015 12:41 To: Maqbool Hashim; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? Can your devices support a full ta

Re: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
ashim" > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 4:36:34 AM > Subject: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? > > Hi, > > > We are an enterprise that are eBGP multihoming to two ISPs. We wish to load > balance in inbound and outbound traffic th

RE: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-31 Thread Joseph Jackson
vider. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Maqbool Hashim Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 3:37 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial? Hi, We are an enterprise that are eBGP multihoming to two ISPs. We wish to load balan

BGP Multihoming 2 providers full or partial?

2015-05-30 Thread Maqbool Hashim
Hi, We are an enterprise that are eBGP multihoming to two ISPs. We wish to load balance in inbound and outbound traffic thereby using our capacity as efficiently as possible. My current feeling is that it would be crazy for us to take a full Internet routing table from either ISP. I have read

Re: BGP multihoming

2014-02-03 Thread Tore Anderson
* Tore Anderson > * Baldur Norddahl > >> Is assigning a /24 from my own PA space for the purpose of BGP >> multihoming considered sufficient "need"? > > Not with current policies, no That was then. With current policies: yes. To elaborate a bit, the RIPE Com

Re: BGP multihoming

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Michael Braun (michbrau) wrote: > Does > that cause any problems where address space is being advertised from a > non-assigned AS? how do you mean 'non-assigned' ? perhaps you have an example in the routing system today you could point at?

Re: BGP multihoming

2014-01-29 Thread Tore Anderson
IR on your customer's behalf, for a reasonable fee.) > Is assigning a /24 from my own PA space for the purpose of BGP > multihoming considered sufficient "need"? Not with current policies, no, as the multihoming clause only applied specifically to PI assignments, not pA. However, i

Re: BGP multihoming

2014-01-29 Thread Michael Braun (michbrau)
I. Which appears to be >impossible as RIPE does no longer assign PI space and PI can not be >reassigned and thus be bought. > >Is assigning a /24 from my own PA space for the purpose of BGP multihoming >considered sufficient "need"? > >Could he get some PI from

Re: BGP multihoming

2014-01-29 Thread Justin M. Streiner
e for the purpose of BGP multihoming considered sufficient "need"? I haven't looked at RIPE policies in a while, but I would imagine that assigning a customer a /24 of your space because they need to multihome is considered a justifiable use. Could he get some PI from another

BGP multihoming

2014-01-29 Thread Baldur Norddahl
for multihoming as everyone are going to ignore his route. I would then need to help him with acquiring a /24 PI. Which appears to be impossible as RIPE does no longer assign PI space and PI can not be reassigned and thus be bought. Is assigning a /24 from my own PA space for the purpose of BGP

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le 29/01/2014 20:34, Owen DeLong a écrit : >> This sort of local-pref default seems to be a common practice with >> backbones. It's very annoying. I wish they'd stop. > Most of their customers would actually be very unhappy if they stopped. This > local-pref default prevents many many problems and

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> This sort of local-pref default seems to be a common practice with > backbones. It's very annoying. I wish they'd stop. Most of their customers would actually be very unhappy if they stopped. This local-pref default prevents many many problems and in the vast majority of cases provides the des

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Joseph Jenkins wrote: > I am seeking some feedback/help with my BGP configuration. > I am peering with two providers level3 and tw. Unfortunately all of > my address spaces are preferring the route over tw rather than level3. Hi Joe, I had a situation like this

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Curtis Doty
According to telnet://route-server.twtelecom.net and http://lookingglass.level3.net/bgp/lg_bgp_main.php BGP is working as designed. Your single prepend on one prefix with TWTC causes a slight preference for LVL3. Add another prepend if you want to further balance your ingress load away from TWTC.

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Jakob Heitz
It is likely that level3 is aggregating your route, but tw can't. Longest match wins. -- Jakob Heitz. > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 03:32:17 -0800 > From: Joseph Jenkins > > I am seeking some feedback/help with my BGP configuration. I am peering with > two providers level3 and tw. Unfortunately

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
day, January 29, 2014 9:20:32 AM > Subject: RE: BGP multihoming with two address spaces > > Perhaps L3 is preferring the routes it hears from TW over the ones it hears > from you. Perhaps there is a community string you can attach to your > announcements to one or both providers

RE: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Adam Greene
Jenkins [mailto:j...@breathe-underwater.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 7:45 AM Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces I am announcing two separate /24s. 8.37.93.0 and 207.114.212.0. Joe On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Sasa Ristic wrote: > How are

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Joseph Jenkins
I am announcing two separate /24s. 8.37.93.0 and 207.114.212.0. Joe On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:21 AM, Sasa Ristic wrote: > How are you announcing your address space now? > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Joseph Jenkins > wrote: >> I am seeking some feedback/help with my BGP configuration. I

Re: BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Sasa Ristic
How are you announcing your address space now? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Joseph Jenkins wrote: > I am seeking some feedback/help with my BGP configuration. I am peering with > two providers level3 and tw. Unfortunately all of my address spaces are > preferring the route over tw rather

BGP multihoming with two address spaces

2014-01-29 Thread Joseph Jenkins
I am seeking some feedback/help with my BGP configuration. I am peering with two providers level3 and tw. Unfortunately all of my address spaces are preferring the route over tw rather than level3. I have tried Prepending my AS and the carriers AS to the path on the tw side and I see those up

Re: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-11 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"George Bonser" writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Bret Clark >> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:08 AM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: BGP multihoming question. >> >> On 12/10/2010 10:01 AM, Dylan Ebner wrote: >>

RE: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-10 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Bret Clark > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:08 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: BGP multihoming question. > > On 12/10/2010 10:01 AM, Dylan Ebner wrote: > > 3. You cannot trust the second isp to advertise the SWIP block

Re: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-10 Thread Bret Clark
On 12/10/2010 10:01 AM, Dylan Ebner wrote: 3. You cannot trust the second isp to advertise the SWIP block correctly if they are not a tier 1. Even though they may advertise it for you to their upstream, they don't always have the appropriate procedures in place to get the LOAs to the upstream

RE: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-10 Thread Dylan Ebner
Ebner -Original Message- From: b2 [mailto:b...@playtime.bg] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:32 AM To: North American Network Operators Group Subject: BGP multihoming question. Hi , first sorry for lame question but i'm new to BGP. In my ISP I have two full BGP sessions with my two transit

Re: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-09 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/9/2010 5:32 AM, b2 wrote: Hi , first sorry for lame question but i'm new to BGP. In my ISP I have two full BGP sessions with my two transit providers (X and Y), and for every provider i have assigned PA (Provider Aggregatable) networks. Is it possible (if there are no filters on other side)

Re: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-09 Thread William Herrin
2010/12/9 b2 : > Hi , first sorry for lame question but i'm new to BGP. > In my ISP I have two full BGP sessions with my two transit providers (X > and Y), and for every provider i have assigned PA (Provider > Aggregatable) networks. Is it possible (if there are no filters on other > side) to adver

Re: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-09 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:32:26 +0200 b2 wrote: > Hi , first sorry for lame question but i'm new to BGP. > In my ISP I have two full BGP sessions with my two transit providers > (X and Y), and for every provider i have assigned PA (Provider > Aggregatable) networks. Is it possible (if there are no f

BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-09 Thread b2
Hi , first sorry for lame question but i'm new to BGP. In my ISP I have two full BGP sessions with my two transit providers (X and Y), and for every provider i have assigned PA (Provider Aggregatable) networks. Is it possible (if there are no filters on other side) to advertise X networks to Y and

Re: BGP Multihoming Partial vs. Full Routes

2010-06-15 Thread Jared Mauch
Most providers will give you just their on net prefixes. This is useful if multihomed but you do not really need full tables. Then you can default or similar for the rest of the net. Jared Mauch On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:30 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: > > I know this topic must have been cov

Re: BGP Multihoming Partial vs. Full Routes

2010-06-15 Thread Anton Kapela
On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > upstream, full routes are generally not as useful as one might expect. You're > at least as well off with default routes for your upstreams plus what we call > "Optimized Edge Routing", which allows you to identify (dynamically, for each > pref

Re: BGP Multihoming Partial vs. Full Routes

2010-06-14 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:30 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: > Cisco's position these days seems to be "you don't need to carry full views > unless you like tinkering with optimizig paths and such." Not sure why Cisco's position is relevant, but let me restate it. Cisco will happily sell you all the

BGP Multihoming Partial vs. Full Routes

2010-06-14 Thread James Smallacombe
I know this topic must have been covered before, but I can find no search tool for the NANOG archives. I did google and reference Halabi's book as well as Avi's howto, but I still don't feel I fully understand the pros and cons of Full vs. Partial routes in a dual/multihomed network. Cisco'

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-22 Thread jamie rishaw
on issues like this : [1] JFGI -> if fail : [2] man smartnet -> if fail : [3] go back to studying to get that A+ and consider perhaps a yob in redmond On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Hi! > > Yes, i can get sample of configuration via Google search. >>

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-22 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Yes, i can get sample of configuration via Google search. but i am looking for best practices and from experience people. Then post your suggested config and ask for comments. ...on a suitable list, dedicated to Cisco gear.. Sorry, yes. :-) Plenty of Cisco lists there to answer 'ques

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-22 Thread Mans Nilsson
Subject: Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming Date: Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:55:14AM +0200 Quoting Raymond Dijkxhoorn (raym...@prolocation.net): > Hi! > >> Yes, i can get sample of configuration via Google search. >> but i am looking for best practices and from

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-22 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Yes, i can get sample of configuration via Google search. but i am looking for best practices and from experience people. Then post your suggested config and ask for comments. Bye, Raymond.

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-21 Thread ty chan
nd Transit - BGP multihoming Google BGP Cisco... Should give you 90% of this. --Original Message-- From: ty chan To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming Sent: May 22, 2009 2:23 AM Dear all, In my lab, i manage two ASN (100,200). ASN100 has one transit to

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-21 Thread deleskie
Google BGP Cisco... Should give you 90% of this. --Original Message-- From: ty chan To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming Sent: May 22, 2009 2:23 AM Dear all, In my lab, i manage two ASN (100,200). ASN100 has one transit to ASN300 and local peering to

Re: Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
ty chan wrote: > Dear all, > > In my lab, i manage two ASN (100,200). ASN100 has one transit to ASN300 and > local peering to ASN500. > ASN200 has one transit to ASN400. ASN100 do private peering to ASN200. Some > policies are required as below: > 1. ASN100 customer can only use ASN300 for trans

Local Peering and Transit - BGP multihoming

2009-05-21 Thread ty chan
Dear all, In my lab, i manage two ASN (100,200). ASN100 has one transit to ASN300 and local peering to ASN500. ASN200 has one transit to ASN400. ASN100 do private peering to ASN200. Some policies are required as below: 1. ASN100 customer can only use ASN300 for transit 2. ASN200 customer can onl