[110254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover solution using BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Dec 31 08:25:15 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Naveen Nathan <naveen@calpop.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:25:02 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20081231035917.GA12164@armakuni.lastninja.net> (Naveen Nathan's
message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:59:17 +0000")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* 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 flow to both locations.