I am ready to begin turning up BGP on both of my edge routers and start
advertising my new IPv4 assignment. I am want to make sure I understand
things clearly first.

These were setup as two separate networks, each with their own upstream. We
built out between them and got a backhaul between the two so we could
manage the far network from the one we have our office already on. I turned
up OSPF recently on all routers and the routes for both networks are shared
between the two edge routers.

Now we have our own IP space and would like to start advertising/using it.
That seems easy enough. Turn BGP on between the edge routers and our
upstream providers and advertise some addresses on one and some on the
other. The real fun begins when we want to have fail-over between the two.
Initially this will only be for some VIP clients like ISDs and Hospitals.
In the event of an outage upstream of either network I would like to make
sure these clients stay up across the backhaul between networks.

I believe the way to accomplish this is just to announce the space used by
those clients to both upstream ASes and just prepend the ones that normally
live on the other network. That way should the upstream go down, the
"farther" path will become active. Beyond that I just need to have iBGP
running between my two edge routers so those routes are known. Does this
sound right?
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