On Tuesday 23 September 2008 08:37:56 Paul Stewart wrote: > Hi folks.. > > > > We have a couple of customers that are looking to purchase an Internet > connection from us - this will be a BGP feed to each customer as they are > multihomed today etc. > > > > Normally, we would just supply a full table and let them decide what to do > with it. In this scenario, they both wish to use us as a backup provider > and wish to ONLY use our network if their primary provider (Cogent) is > down. > > > > What is common practice for this scenario? We would still prefer to just > send a full table and put the control into their hands but I'm also > concerned if they will have the technical expertise to accomplish this.. > On their side, what would be common practice? I've been looking at > conditional BGP advertisements using route-maps but don't believe that's > the best solution.. > > > > Thanks for your input. > > > > Paul
Forgot to mention that they'll still need to set local pref to always prefer the primary provider. Stephen Kratzer Network Engineer CTI Networks, Inc. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
