An interesting question. If I assume you mean you wish to influence inbound traffic then your options are very limited as the provider usually has no obligation to honor any metrics you attempt to set.
If I assume you are trying to influence your outbound routing options then you would want to create several import policies to give varying preferences to the routes you choose to receive. If you need assistance, call into support. Have a great day! David On May 14, 2009, at 3:49 PM, "Leigh Sharpe" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi All, I have an old SSR8000 doing BGP into several upstream peers. I am about to add another peer, but I want to be able to influence the upstream route selection so that the new peer is only used as a last resort (ie, when all other gateways are unavailable). I also want to be able to change this on a per-advert basis, ie have some prefixes delivered by this peer always, but only as a last resort for other prefixes. Can anybody suggest how to influence upstream routes? AS-path prepending doesn't sound like it's flexible enough. What other metrics are available to me? Thanks in advance, Leigh * --To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
