On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, whitaker wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback! I'm not familiar with RSPL (obviously); I'll read
> up on it.
> 
> As far as the soft reconfiguration goes, I assume I'll need to add the line
> 'neighbor <neighbor ip> soft-reconfiguration inbound' command to enable soft
> reconfiguration.

What type of router is this?  soft-reconfig keeps a copy of the BGP table,
in addition to the one in memory already.........so its like having to
keep two copies.........it uses up alot of memory, and you need to keep
that in mind.

> 
> To load balance outbound, I assume I'll need to do the following:
> 
> ! 6509A - connected to genuity
> route-map genuity-preference permit 10
> match as-path 20
> set local preference 10
> ip as-path access-list 20 ^1$
> neighbor <Genuity IP address> route-map genuity-preference out

For someone who's first time it is with configuring BGP, you are catching
on real quick.  Yes the above is good, but you may wish to include direct
connections of genuity as well:

 ip as-path access-list 50 permit ^1 ?[0-9]*$


> 
> route-map sprint-preference permit 10
> match as-path 30
> set local preference 100
> ip as-path access-list 30 ^<sprint AS>$
> neighbor <6509B ip address> route-map sprint-preference out
> 
> (And add the similiar statements to the 6509B)

good luck

Brian
> 

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Brian Feeny, CCNP, CCDP       [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
Network Administrator         
ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)            

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