[115074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi site BGP Routing design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Jun 5 20:17:29 2009
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:16:55 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> said:
> Unless someone else has any better advice (I'm sure they do), you will
> need two separate public ASNs. Site 1 advertises it's space out of AS1,
> and site 2 advertises it's space from AS2.
I don't know that it's better advice, but another way to link the two
sites is via a tunnel (GRE or IPIP). Use the upstream IP on each router
as the local endpoint, and then run some routing protocol over the
tunnel.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
