Re: OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-12-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-12-10, Rod Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redundancy: At first I would have thought that two identical routers in a classical carp firewall hookup would have been a good choice. .. Searching found quite a few other ideas and our peering provider's support guy is nervous about

Re: OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-12-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
I normally prefer interspersed or bottom replies but I'll top post this time for brevity. Thanks very much for this. It's nearly bedtime (i'm catching up on missed sleep) and I know I'm going to read this again, many times, hard copy of man pages in hand. (and your other notes) Hopefully there

Re: OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-12-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
Continuing the learning process: Since my last session on this I've had lots of pointers to things I could research. Particular thanks to Stuart. Man oh man, there are lots of monkeys typing junk that Google pads out the useful search results with. Anyway there are some things that are a

Re: OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-11-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-11-02, Rod Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an IPv4 /21 transit and an IPv6 /32 transit at the moment. No BGP. Enter a peering service which is to provide peering for those netblocks over a pretty fat single link. (I don't know the bandwidth but I am assured it is big

OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-11-01 Thread Rod Whitworth
Hi BGP4 experts, I'm not one of you and getting to the first step is pretty scary. I've been reading the van Beijnum (O'Reilly) and Stewart (A-W) books and the man pages for bgpd, bgpd.conf and anything else I can find. What is really hard is to get a configuration to test stuff when you don't