Re: bgp best practice question

2012-06-04 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2012-06-04 11:36 -0700), jon Heise wrote: > I need to make one of our data centers internet accessible, i plan to > advertise a /24 out of our existing /22 network block at our new site. My > question is for our main datacenter, is it a better idea to continue to > advertise the full /22 or

Re: bgp best practice question

2012-06-04 Thread Chris Grundemann
Depends on a few things, but the main questions are probably: Are the data-centers connected on the backside (VPN, etc. - could the new dc failover through the main dc)? Yes - /22 Will that /24 ever be used in the main datacenter? Yes - /22 $0.02 ~Chris On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:36 PM, jon Heis

bgp best practice question

2012-06-04 Thread jon Heise
I need to make one of our data centers internet accessible, i plan to advertise a /24 out of our existing /22 network block at our new site. My question is for our main datacenter, is it a better idea to continue to advertise the full /22 or advertise the remaining /23 and /24 networks ? - Jon