In Mikrotik you use something like 512mb for your first provider and then 768mb for your second provider. A gig should be good, but two is better. I'm talking full routes.
What router do you have, TJ? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: > Full routes means that you see all routes your providers pass on. It can > be a large list but it does give you the best view outbound. As long as > you have the memory and CPU to handle it there isn’t really any reason not > to take it. Even with ‘full routes’ you usually don’t want to take > anything more specific than a /24 > > Partial routes limits the prefix length you see to cut down on the amount > of memory and routes you see. You won’t see the optimal route (not that > BGP path is truly optimal anyway) but you should still be able to reach the > vast majority of destinations even without a default route since there is > normally a less specific ‘covering’ prefix. A /22 filter with a default > route cuts down on the number of routes significantly. A /20 further > reduces the routes. > > Default route is just that - a place to send traffic when you don’t have a > route in the routing table. Perhaps because you filtered it out. It sends > the traffic to your upstreams router for them to deal with. If they don’t > have a route then it gets dumped. The default route really just changes > where the traffic dies - before or after it leaves your network. > > ‘best’ is probably full routes, if you have hardware that can handle it. > If not then filter prefixes to match what the hardware can do. > > Mark > > > On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:14 PM, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > > I'm a complete idiot and I just turned up 2 upstreams, butch Evans will be > setting up the bgp, he said I can take full routes, partial router /20 and > larger or default routes, anyone able to tell me the best choice and the > pros and cons of each ? > > Thanks a million > > >
