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Re: AS prepending


From: Philip Lavine <source_route () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:05:59 -0700 (PDT)


Update 2:

More info. When I have tested the failover by pulling
the plug on the preferred ISP, I do not see my network
in looking glass. Secondly, the backup provider has
told me the the route is not in the (rib).

Philip


--- Mark Kasten <mark.kasten () savvis net> wrote:
<offlist>

fwiw, it's in the routing table (rib), not their
forwarding table (fib). 
  if they look on their side of the session, they
will have the prefix 
in "show ip bgp" or "show route", but it will not
propogate beyond that 
router because their network prefers the other path
with the short AS. 
a router doesn't forward all rib entries, only fib
entries.


for example:

dcr4.nyr> show route 141.77.0.0/16
141.77.0.0/16      *[BGP/170] 3w4d 01:53:30, MED 98,
localpref 100, from 
206.24.194.105
                       AS path: 1273 ?
                     > via so-0/0/0.1510
                       via so-1/1/0.10
                     [BGP/170] 9w3d 12:26:09, MED
128, localpref 80
                       AS path: 3356 1273 I
                     > to 4.68.127.205 via
so-6/1/0.0
                     [BGP/170] 21:32:50, MED 128,
localpref 80
                       AS path: 1239 1273 ?
                     > to 144.232.9.117 via
so-3/1/0.0


on a router, one hop away:


kar1.nyr> show route 141.77.0.0/16

inet.0: 173067 destinations, 345433 routes (172951
active, 0 holddown, 
547 hidden)
Restart Complete
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

141.77.0.0/16      *[BGP/170] 3w4d 01:53:59, MED 98,
localpref 100, from 
206.24.194.105
                       AS path: 1273 ?
                     > to 208.174.228.1 via ae0.0



no evidence of the 3356_1273 or the 1239_1273 path. 
if i lose the 
direct 1273 path, then one of those paths would then
be propogated as 
the preferred path.


hth's.

mark


Philip Lavine wrote:

Update:

I am prepending my AS 3 times to the un-preferred
ISP.
Both ISP's are my peers. The un-preferred ISP
claims
the see my advertisement yet they do not add it to
their routing table (suggests filtering??). They
claim
all the filtering they are doing is based on the
networks I told them over the phone that I was
using
with that AS.

Philip

--- Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Philip Lavine wrote:


I am using AS prepending to favor one ISP over
another, in a BGP multihomed/multiISP scenario.

Why

does the ISP receiving the prepends fail to add
my
network into their routing table? Is this a

"feature"

of BGP, or have I gone too far with 3 prepend
statements.

Who's ASN are you prepending on your advertised
routes?





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