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Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend?
From: "Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire () isdn net>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:00:34 -0600
Hello.Answering the original question, as prepends are not a definitive way to force all traffic to one site or the other.
Two ways that definitely will work are.1. Send a community to the upstream provider at the backup site that causes them to set a lower plocalpref on the route you send them vs. the route learned from the internet.
2. If you have a large enough ip block, Advertise an aggregate address from your backup site, and more specifics from your primary. I.e. advertise a /23 from your backup site and the same /23 as two /24's from the primary.
-ejay Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:10:02 +0100 Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote:
* Christopher J. Pilkington:We have a disaster recovery site which will have a clone of the myriadproduction servers. We'd like to fail over to that site automagically.I'm thinking advertising the same prefix and just doing several as-prepends. However, now I'm not sure if this is a polite thing todo or not.Can your backup servers run in parallel to your primary servers? How do you handle conflicting updates (assuming that the services are notcompletely stateless)?
Current thread:
- Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Christopher J. Pilkington (Feb 16)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Andy Davidson (Feb 16)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Florian Weimer (Feb 16)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Ejay Hire (Feb 16)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Warren Kumari (Feb 16)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Todd Vierling (Feb 17)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 17)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Todd Vierling (Feb 17)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Todd Vierling (Feb 17)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Warren Kumari (Feb 17)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 17)
- Re: Disaster recovery using as-prepend? Todd Vierling (Feb 17)