Its because we have upstreams in different towns both doing BGP. If the path on our network between them goes down it orphans customers so this allows a hobbled failover. We have passed 3-400mbps across it to our surprise. I think our upstreams peer with zayo near each other. We originally had EOIP but it was problematic and unreliable
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 3:08 AM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > Why gre? Sounds interesting, how much traffic can you pass via gre? > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 7:14 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Yeah, apparently they moved our BGP to a new switch and had a syntax >> error. We never noticed because our backup external GRE flowed bypass >> traffic. I assume enough was getting out to wherever our upstreams meet >> there was announcement. >> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 8:22 AM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> https://radar.qrator.net/as/40121/ipv4/neighbors/providers?prefix-history=30036 >>> >>> >>> https://stat.ripe.net/special/bgplay#bgplay_fetch.resource=142.202.109.0&bgplay_fetch.ignoreReannouncements=false&bgplay_fetch.starttime=1712823872&bgplay_fetch.endtime=1713342272&bgplay_fetch.rrcs=11,14&bgplay_fetch.instant=null&bgplay_fetch.type=bgp >>> >>> >>> It looks like Mediacom dropped at 2024-04-12 05:18:55 UTC. Well, >>> "dropped" it looks like at least some IPs through some peers are reachable >>> via Mediacom. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >>> >>> >>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> >>> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> >>> *Sent: *Tuesday, April 16, 2024 2:07:42 PM >>> *Subject: *[AFMUG] ASN check >>> >>> 40121 >>> can somebody else verify this is only showing one peer, im no looking >>> glass master, but it appears one of our peers stopped announcing on the 12th >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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