[116848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundancy & Summarization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Dickson)
Fri Aug 21 15:48:09 2009
From: Brian Dickson <Brian.Dickson@concertia.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:47:14 -0300
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> My institution has a single /16 spread across 2 sites: the lower /17 is
> used at site A, the upper /17 at site B. Sites A & B are connected
> internally. Currently both sites have their own ISPs and only advertise
> their own /17's. For redundancy we proposed that each site advertise
> both their own /17 and the whole /16, so that an ISP failure at either
> site would trigger traffic from both /17s to reconverge towards the
> unaffected location.
There are two different ways to achieve almost-identical results.
However, one is a 50% more "green" than the other, i.e. friendly to other =
network operators.
These two choices are functionally equivalent, and possible, only because t=
hings currently work for both your /17's.
Here are the two ways to do this:
One is:
- announce /17 "A" and /16 from uplink ISP-A
- announce /17 "B" and /16 from uplink ISP-B
- This results in 3 prefixes globally: A, B, and /16.
The other is:
- announce /17 "A" and /17 "B", with different policies (i.e. prepend your =
AS once or twice), at *both* ISPs.
- This results in 2 prefixes globally: A and B.
In all cases, as long as one ISP link is up, there is a path to both A and =
B.
In most cases, the best path to A or B, is *mostly*, but not completely, un=
der your influence.
So, the main difference to everyone else is, the presence or absence of a r=
outing slot (/16), and/or extra copies of A and/or B.
The routing slot occupies a slot in data-forwarding-plane hardware that is =
very limited.
The extra copies of A and B (and extra copies of your AS in the AS-path) on=
ly eat cheap control-plane memory.
If everyone did things nicely, we would not have as much of a crisis on the=
hardware side as we (collectively) do.
Please consider being part of the solution (announcing only /17's, but in b=
oth places) rather than part of the problem (adding a new redundant /16 to =
everyone's routers, including in the hardware slots.)
Brian
