[110256] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Failover solution using BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryant Valencia)
Wed Dec 31 08:59:30 2008
From: Bryant Valencia <bvlmv@hotmail.com>
To: <naveen@calpop.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:59:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20081231000832.GB6841@armakuni.lastninja.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
If an IBGP link is possible then you could automate this with the proper at=
tributes. > Date: Wed=2C 31 Dec 2008 00:08:32 +0000> From: naveen@calpop.co=
m> To: nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Failover solution using BGP> > Hi=2C> > I =
would appreciate insight and experience for the following situation.> > I h=
ave a client that would like to announce a /18 & /19 over BGP in> Sacrament=
o and LA=2C us being the second location in LA. Our location> will be a fai=
lover location incase Sacramento goes down.> > They want failover for extre=
me cases when they're completly down in> Sacramento. They have strict requi=
rements so that traffic to their blocks> should exclusively go to Sacrament=
o or LA.> > This seems difficult to automate and they are aware of this. Th=
ey will> contact their provider to stop announcing the blocks and subsequen=
tly> contact us to announce their routes.> > I am wondering is there a bett=
er way to approaching the situation> without resorting to announcing the ro=
utes when the client calls us> and tells us to failover. This seems to be t=
he inherent problem aswell> because the customer wants this to be a manual =
process.> > -- > Naveen Nathan> > To understand the human mind=2C understan=
d self-deception. - Anon>=20
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