Hi Dan, Are you using LDP ? Try "track-igp-metric" under [protocols ldp] stanza.
regards Piotr Marecki ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:08 PM Subject: [j-nsp] Juniper BGP Route Metrics > All, I am in a funny spot in my network where I could you a little > assistance. I run a fairly widespread network in the US, where I peer > and buy upstream bandwidth in multiple locations in may cases with the > same Networks. > > We currently run OSPF as in IGP and carry IBGP over loopbacks for bgp > route distribution. Recently we have implemented MPLS for many obvious > reasons and in doing so changed the way our customer traffic flows > dramatically. This from what I can tell is due to route preference, > where before MPLS a flow would be looked up at every hop and might be > handed to a connected AS more locally to the origination of the flow (A > good thing). Now with MPLS when the flow is setup it is never looked at > again from an IP standpoint and therefore leaves my route preference > using the last resort, router-id. This as anyone knows is plain old > wrong in this case and is hurting my traffic in more ways then one. > > Looking and testing I have had absolutely no luck setting the IBGP core > to use IGP metrics for route preference, nor have I had any luck with > external router id (At this point I will try anything). My OSPF links > are all set with specific Metrics and flow just the way they should but > my hope is that I can get my BGP route table to use either the metric or > the metric2 as the last resort tie breaker for prefix next-hops instead > of the IBGP router-id. > > I have tested this in junos 7.3 and 8.2 with no luck. I have also tried > policies such as metric add 0 but still have no metrics in the bgp route > table. Have I been assuming that this feature does something completely > different then what I have read it can do? Does anyone out there have > any suggestions as to how to use the most locally (Closest OSPF metric'd > IBGP neighbor) learned next-hop for a prefix? Am I left to manually set > all the metrics on outbound routes in my core to force each router to > use the more locally learned route? > > I thank you all for your help in advance and take care.. //db > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
