At 09:47 PM 18-10-08 +0500, Masood Ahmad Shah wrote:

I am curious if anyone else uses conditional BGP as a poor man's DRP?

Suppose you have site A with 192.168.1.0/24. The site is connected to 2 upstream ISPs and they have a number of servers at site A. They now create a DRP site (site B), which is also connected to 2 upstream ISPs and they create a mirror copy of those servers from site A over at site B and assign them the *exact* same IP addresses as at site A. They have the router at site B do conditional BGP, checking to see if it sees 192.168.1.0/24 from the Internet. As soon as it disappears (site A is gone), site B starts announcing 192.168.1.0/24 to the Internet and all the DRP servers at site B are suddenly active. Ignoring the syncing of the servers from site B to site A, what is the downside of such a "poor mans' DRP solution?

Regards,
Hank

A nice book on BGP

Practical BGP
By Russ White

Regards,
Masood
BLOG: http://www.weblogs.com.pk/jahil


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>  2) View the NANOG presentation archives.  Several come to mind; I'll try
to
>  compile a list of suggestions, or just browse away.

Search the presentation archive for Smith and BGP.  Philip Smith's
BGP tutorials are outstanding.

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