Well, if he's only taking a single provider at each location and only using it 
as fail-over for a couple subnets, I'm not sure he needs full routes. 

I would take full routes, but I wouldn't be doing it the way he is either. 
*shrugs* 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> 
To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 11:00:39 AM 
Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 

If you have the hardware for full, do it. 

Do you know the differences? 

Josh Luthman 
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Direct: 937-552-2343 
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On Mar 21, 2014 11:56 AM, "Ty Featherling" <[email protected]> wrote: 

> Any advice on default vs full or connected routes? 
> 
> -Ty 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Simon Westlake <[email protected] 
> >wrote: 
> 
> > Right, that's what I meant. 
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/20/2014 9:17 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> > 
> >> All that comes in the other route is what you advertise out of it. If he 
> >> only advertises a different /21 on each side and a /24 from the opposite 
> >> block out of both sides, then only whatever he's advertising out of that 
> >> interface will work. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ----- 
> >> Mike Hammett 
> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> >> http://www.ics-il.com 
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> 
> >> From: "Simon Westlake" <[email protected]> 
> >> To: [email protected] 
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:33:18 PM 
> >> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> >> 
> >> That will make things more complicated if you advertise space out of 
> >> both routers. If one goes down, all inbound traffic will start coming in 
> >> through the other router, whether you want it or not. 
> >> 
> >> On 3/20/2014 8:07 AM, Ty Featherling wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> Yes I have started the process with both upstreams. I do intend to 
> spend 
> >>> some time on filters as well, thanks. 
> >>> 
> >>> Mike, the two networks each have 300Mbps feeds to the internet but only 
> >>> 100Mbps between the two networks via wireless backhaul. For now at 
> least 
> >>> I 
> >>> only want failover for ourselves, some key servers, 2 School 
> Districts, a 
> >>> hospital, and city/county government. 
> >>> 
> >>> -Ty 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Casey Mills <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> It has been a while since I set one of these up... But when I did this 
> >>>> there wasn't a need to run BGP between the edge routers. The 
> advertised 
> >>>> networks should propagate through OSPF. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm sure you have already taken care of this, but make sure your 
> >>>> upstream 
> >>>> providers will allow you to advertise your new IP space. If they are a 
> >>>> good 
> >>>> upstream provider they should be using some filtering and will need to 
> >>>> specifically allow this IP range from your ASN. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Like I said it has been a while, but go ahead and setup filters going 
> >>>> both 
> >>>> ways for all of the internal IP ranges. I had Cox trying to send me 
> some 
> >>>> internal IPs at one time. If we had been using those IPs internally it 
> >>>> would have caused a mess. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Casey 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Mike Hammett < 
> >>>> [email protected] 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>> That would work, but I'm not sure no service is better than slow 
> >>>>> service. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> ----- 
> >>>>> Mike Hammett 
> >>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> >>>>> http://www.ics-il.com 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> From: "Ty Featherling" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:22:22 PM 
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I don't want, because I can't accomodate, failover of A to B and B to 
> >>>>> A. 
> >>>>> What I do have the bandwidth between networks to do is fail over a 
> >>>>> subset 
> >>>>> (VIP customers) of A to B and vice versa. My guess is to advertise a 
> >>>>> /21 
> >>>>> via each and a /24 from each /21 on both for the fail over to be for 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> those 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> /24s specifically. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> -Ty 
> >>>>> On Mar 19, 2014 8:01 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> I'm not sure what your plan is with that /24. If you advertise that 
> /20 
> >>>>>> out both providers, the entire Internet can reach that /20 from 
> either 
> >>>>>> provider. If either provider fails, your entire address space is 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> available 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> on the other. No need to do anything except contact your failed 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> upstream 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> to 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> get the connection repaired. If you want to weight traffic based on 
> >>>>>> (relative) geography, advertise the /20 out both providers in 
> addition 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> to 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> one /21 out provider A and one /21 out provider B. Traffic will 
> prefer 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> the 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> /19 until that provider fails. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> ----- 
> >>>>>> Mike Hammett 
> >>>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> >>>>>> http://www.ics-il.com 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> From: "Ty Featherling" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>>> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:51:18 PM 
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> We have a /20 assignment that I will be using on both sides. I 
> intend 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> to 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> have a /24 on each side that will fail over. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> -Ty 
> >>>>>> On Mar 19, 2014 5:19 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Just as an example, if you have a /23 from both providers, announce 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>> that 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> /23 on both connections. Then, advertise the two /24s comprising the 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>> /23 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> on 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> the ISP you want to use it from. I believe BGP will take a longer 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>> prefix 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> before a prepend. The smallest you can advertise, though, is a /24, 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>> so 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> if 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> your blocks are smaller, that won't work. 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> ----- 
> >>>>>>> Mike Hammett 
> >>>>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> >>>>>>> http://www.ics-il.com 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> From: "Ty Featherling" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>>>> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> 
> >>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:11:43 PM 
> >>>>>>> Subject: [Mikrotik] BGP guidance 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 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 
> >>>>> 
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