[135219] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Dual Homed BGP for failover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Tue Jan 18 15:06:16 2011
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:05:28 -0800
In-Reply-To: <BLU158-w48D8FEABCAD84C7FE4896ADCF70@phx.gbl>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Brandon Kim" <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>, <jbates@brightok.net>,
<bill@herrin.us>
Cc: ayousuf0079@gmail.com, nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Kim=20
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:57 AM
> To: jbates@brightok.net; bill@herrin.us
> Cc: ayousuf0079@gmail.com; nanog group
> Subject: RE: Dual Homed BGP for failover
>=20
>=20
> Someone should advise him that if he wants to take in a full BGP
> routing table
> that he makes sure his router can handle it! I would hate for him to
> open the floodgates
> and his production router shuts down. LOL....
One can take a full feed but filter so only a subset of the routes are
actually installed. For example, filter all routes that are more than
one AS away from the immediate upstream.