Arie,
Thank you for your response. In my situation, where everything is normal, I am 
actually sending their specific communities for them not to advertise my route 
to their peers. My only problem is how to change that automatically when my 
default route from ATT goes away (ATT circuit does down and I'm in a failover 
situation)?

Thank you,



-----Original Message-----
From: Arie Vayner (avayner) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 10/24/2008 6:03 PM
To: Kacprzynski, Tomasz; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] BGP Multihomed Selective/Conditional Advertisement
 
Tom,

Instead of not advertising a certain prefix, there is another alternative using 
BGP communities which are recognized by your upstream providers.

Take a look for what Cogent supports for example (better ask them for the 
official list...):
http://www.onesc.net/communities/as174/

You could play with the local pref communities or the no-export ones

Its not the full answer, but just another idea... Let me know if you are still 
stuck...

Arie 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 23:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [c-nsp] BGP Multihomed Selective/Conditional Advertisement

 
I have been trying to figure out how to do this and maybe someone will be able 
to help me out.
 
I have two ISP connections ISP ATT and ISP Cogent. 
 
(ISP Cogent)    (ISP ATT)
     |                       |
  RO ------------------- R1
 
 
ATT would be used for primarily internet and access to our webservers.
 
Cogent would be primarily used to access Cognet's network that use VPN for 
incoming connections only. I do not want to have other networks besides 
Cogent's network using this path to access our webserver.
 
I would like to have each other act as a backup for one another. For instance 
if ATT fails I want everyone on the internet use Cogent to access me. If Cogent 
fails I want everyone on the internet and the VPN connections on Cogent's 
network to use ATT.
 
So basically what I was thinking to setup is to accept a default router from 
ATT and Cogent. Lower the local preference of Cogent and that way I would 
accomplish using ATT as primary internet access.
 
The tricky part is with Cogent and using then to only access their local 
networks. Looking through communities I found out Cogent's communities that 
would not export my route to their peers and keep it internal within their AS. 
This works fine but the problem now is how do I failover if ATT fails? How do I 
automatically change my not-export community I'm sending to Cogent to start 
adverting the route to its peers?
 
I looked at conditional advertisement, I was able to basically send the route 
map with not-export communities to Cogent if the default route from ATT is 
present. The problem with this is that once the default router disappears it 
doesn't advertise anything to Cogent, none of my routes are advertised to 
Cogent.
 
I'm not sure if I could do this sort of a double condition such as 
 
if ATT's default route is present send out to Cogent a route map with prefixes 
to not-export my routes if ATT's default route is not present sent to Cogent a 
route map without any communities on my routes
 
Basically I'm trying to figure out how I can have multihoming, but with the 
constrains that I want 1 ISP to be used for internet and the other to only 
access their AS, but still have the capability to automatically failover in 
case one of the circuits dies.
 
Thank you for any input or help.
 
 
Tom Kacprzynski
Network Engineer
 
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