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Re: Redundancy & Summarization

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hector Herrera)
Sat Aug 22 15:09:09 2009

In-Reply-To: <4A8FF80D.4020103@webjogger.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:08:52 -0700
From: Hector Herrera <hectorherrera@gmail.com>
To: Adam Greene <maillist@webjogger.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Adam Greene<maillist@webjogger.net> wrote:
> Another option could be to announce one /17 to each upstream provider and
> use conditional BGP to announce the other /17 to the provider that's still
> active in the event that one provider goes down.
>

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this method will only work when handling
local failures.  If there is a failure in a remote network which
causes ISP A to be unreachable from a third party, your routers will
not adjust the announcements since ISP A and B are still reachable to
you, but the third party will not be able to reach the network nearer
to ISP A through the ISP B connection because ISP B doesn't have an
announcement to that network.  (This is assuming that ISP A and ISP B
are not peers).

Hector


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