Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-31 Thread Doug Schaapveld
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Chris Ely wrote: > Conditional advertisements might be what you're looking for: > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080094309.shtml I did something just like this recently. Apologies if this is redundant, but it mig

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-31 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Dec 31, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: DNS tweaks won't help with that (and to be honest, BGP doesn't address it, either). After all, there ought to be an internal line of communication as well as the external one, and the availability probes can be set up with logic such t

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Dobbins: > Have they considered doing GSLB via DNS rather than playing routing > games? Seems as if it might answer better, be less complex, et. al. I suspect they want to solve the split brain problem, which would explain the strong, non-negotiable requirement of traffic flow to only o

RE: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-31 Thread Bryant Valencia
If an IBGP link is possible then you could automate this with the proper attributes. > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:08:32 +> From: nav...@calpop.com> To: nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Failover solution using BGP> > Hi,> > I would appreciate insight and experience for the f

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-31 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Dec 31, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Naveen Nathan wrote: Also they didn't want to subnet the space for the failover location, so it's all or nothing style routing. Have they considered doing GSLB via DNS rather than playing routing games? Seems as if it might answer better, be less complex, et

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Naveen Nathan: > Of the several solutions presented the two that seem to be simple to > implement and guarantee traffic were conditional route advertisements > or using more specific routes. One thing you need to consider is what happens if your AS is split. In this case, traffic will probably

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Naveen Nathan
Thank to everyone that took the time to respond with their ideas. To those who asked, the client didn't provide details on the application. However they were insistent that it wasn't possible to have it run in an active/active configuration, so load balancing at either the application or BGP level

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Naveen Nathan wrote: > 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

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Malte von dem Hagen
Hi, Am 31.12.2008 01:19 Uhr, Braun, Mike schrieb: > Why not just AS prepend your secondary site if the services to the > Internet are the same at both sites and tied to the same IP addresses? because that simply does not work (reliably). It would depend on AS-paths of the same length from every p

RE: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Austin Wilson
, December 30, 2008 5:09 PM 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 lo

RE: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Braun, Mike
: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Failover solution using BGP If the infrastructure is the same in both locations, why not load balance with stateful failover? If it's not the same in both locations, what are they doing for replication and the such in the event a site does go down? - Chandler

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Chandler Bassett
If the infrastructure is the same in both locations, why not load balance with stateful failover? If it's not the same in both locations, what are they doing for replication and the such in the event a site does go down? - Chandler On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Naveen Nathan wrote: Hi,

Re: Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Ely
Conditional advertisements might be what you're looking for: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080094309.shtml Regards, Chris Ely On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Naveen Nathan wrote: Hi, I would appreciate insight and experience for the following situation.

Failover solution using BGP

2008-12-30 Thread Naveen Nathan
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 extre