I should have mentioned that I'm only getting a default route from my upstream 
providers. I guess I could request a full table, as we have enough resources to 
handle it on the edge routers. In the past there has not been a convincing 
reason to receive a full bgp route table.

Just curious, how large,in megabytes, is the current bgp table?

JB


> On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Clint Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Everything I'm stating below here is under the assumption you're receiving a 
> full route table from the ISP's and not just a default route. If all you're 
> getting is a default, you're looking at something like policy based routing 
> or possibly PFR to fix this as far as I know.
> 
> Weight and Local Pref to affect outbound --> You'll want it higher on the one 
> you want to be the exit point and as long as you have an iBGP connection 
> between your two BGP edge routers you'll be ok. If no iBGP link between your 
> two edge routers exists then affecting outbound is impossible as you're 
> limited by OSPF and the best you can do is force one to be the outbound for 
> all prefixes. Another way I've seen done what you're doing is to originate 1 
> default in OSPF as Type 1 and the other as Type 2, obviously the exit path to 
> the Type 1 route is preferred, but once it makes it to that edge router 
> you'll have to rely on BGP path selection to affect which edge router to 
> egress for specific prefixes, which is why the iBGP link is required. 
> 
> AS Path and MED to affect inbound --> Usually done by sending communities to 
> your providers to affect their routes; Each provider has a list of 
> communities they accept to perform functions such as 'Add 4x AS# to existing 
> AS_Path' or 'Set local pref' on the provider side. You'll need to use a 
> looking glass server to verify these changes, and you'll want to check them 
> from a couple different providers looking glass to see what effects it has on 
> routing outside of the provider you're trying to traffic engineer. Keep in 
> mind you have to be careful as some providers transit to other provider 
> connections can get saturated which can lead to some unexpected side affects, 
> so you'll have to keep a close eye on performance (latency, etc.)
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I also have 2 (working on 3) Internet connections and only learn default 
>> route from upstream provider....
>> 
>> I don’t know if this is best/common practice but if I ever prefer a /32 to 
>> exit out one of my particular internet connections, I'll point a static /32 
>> out that internet connection and redistribute it into my igp....my igp 
>> happens to be mb-ibgp for my l3vpn's to rcv it across my mpls network.
>> 
>> Aaron
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CWO 
>> Network Operations
>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 3:40 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [c-nsp] OSPF and BGP relationship
>> 
>> I have a question about the common practice of using OSPF and (i)bgp.
>> 
>> Here is my setup:
>> 
>> 
>> I have 4 Cisco routers (A, B, C & D). All routers are connected to each 
>> other through metro ethernet connections. The 4 routers have other “stuff” 
>> behind them speaking only OSPF and require a injected default route.
>> Router A and B are connected to different internet backbone providers using 
>> BGP.
>> Internally I use iBGP and OSPF. I do not redistribute OSPF routes into BGP, 
>> nor do I do the opposite.
>> Router A injects a default route into the network using OSPF’s 
>> default-information originate metric 100.
>> Router B also injects a default route into the network using OSPF’s 
>> default-information originate metric 110.
>> 
>> So, right now all my outbound traffic goes out through router A (because of 
>> the metric 100). Inbound traffic comes through both internet connections, 
>> based on the preferred BGP route.
>> Since the IGP (ospf) has the lower IGP metric (in comparison to ibgp) the 
>> ospf default routes (0.0.0.0/0) routes determine the flow of outbound 
>> traffic. Because of that, I can’t seem to “direct” outbound traffic using a 
>> local route map (local-preference). Ideally I would like to be able to 
>> direct outbound traffic as specific as I like.
>> 
>> What is the common setup, in terms of BGP and OSPF, on networks that 
>> resemble ours?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> JB
>> 
>> 
>> 
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