Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
http://ws.afnog.org/afnog2009/sie/detail.html monday afternoon and tuesdays workshop materials cover introduction to dynamic routing and ospf. thursdays includes the ospf/ibgp intergration materials. On 03/05/2010 08:46 AM, Alex Thurlow wrote: > I have to say that this looks like a nice solution

Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-05 Thread Bret Clark
OPSF (in this scenario) is easier to set up then BGP...but check out http://www.openmaniak.com/quagga.php. On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:46 -0600, Alex Thurlow wrote: > I have to say that this looks like a nice solution to me, and I've > definitely had many people point me to OSPF. One problem is th

Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-05 Thread Alex Thurlow
I have to say that this looks like a nice solution to me, and I've definitely had many people point me to OSPF. One problem is that I've never run OSPF before. Some googling brings of a few results on implementation, but can someone recommend a good place to look or a book to get to really ge

Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Alex Thurlow wrote: 2. Buy a Cisco/Juniper/whatever and then have the Quagga box as backup. 3. I have a 6500 behind the router that's just doing switching. Could I have something switch that to static route all traffic to one of my providers if something happened to the ro

Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-04 Thread Jack Carrozzo
If you want to keep it cheap, roll out another Quagga edge - one to each peer. Drop default into OSPF from both edges, iBGP over a GE between them. If one toasts you'll only lose half your routes for 1s-ish, or however long you set your OSPF keepalives. While you're at it, add extra fans and run t