[86366] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Wed Nov 2 14:56:21 2005
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:53:54 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Edward W. Ray" <spamjail@mmicman.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
What's the netblock and ASN you already have?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Edward W. Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:50 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through
> particular routes
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> spam was a lousy name...
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:44 AM
> To: 'nanog@merit.edu'
> Subject: FW: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through
> particular routes
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> I recently made a request to get a cable modem connection at=20
> my home. I
> went for one of those $29.95 for three month specials in case=20
> I run afoul of
> some rules prohibiting what I am going to do. I already have=20
> a multi-T1
> connection with a Class C block and BGP running on my Cisco=20
> 3640 router, and
> was looking to become multi-homed. The cable connection is=20
> via bridge/DHCP
> cable modem, and was going to hook it up to the Cisco 3640. =20
> I have already
> done the research and know from what block of IP addresses I will be
> assigned, and the BGP route tables/peers.
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> I would like to use BGP to force inbound and outbound routing=20
> only through
> particular peers, Sprint (AS 1239) and UUNET (AS 701). I=20
> have been reading
> "Practical BGP" by Whate, McPherson and Sangli and this appears to be
> possible. However, do my adjacent routers need to support=20
> BGP in order for
> this to work? Could I use other routing protocols to=20
> accomplish this, or
> would this require knowledge of all possible downstream=20
> router IP addresses?
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> Edward W. Ray
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