RE: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes

["Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>]

What's the netblock and ASN you already have?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Edward W. Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:50 PM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through
> particular routes
>
>
>
>  spam was a lousy name...
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:44 AM
> To: 'nanog () merit edu'
> Subject: FW: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through
> particular routes
>
> I recently made a request to get a cable modem connection at 
> my home.  I
> went for one of those $29.95 for three month specials in case 
> I run afoul of
> some rules prohibiting what I am going to do.  I already have 
> a multi-T1
> connection with a Class C block and BGP running on my Cisco 
> 3640 router, and
> was looking to become multi-homed.  The cable connection is 
> via bridge/DHCP
> cable modem, and was going to hook it up to the Cisco 3640.  
> I have already
> done the research and know from what block of IP addresses I will be
> assigned, and the BGP route tables/peers.
>
> I would like to use BGP to force inbound and outbound routing 
> only through
> particular peers, Sprint (AS 1239) and UUNET (AS 701).  I 
> have been reading
> "Practical BGP" by Whate, McPherson and Sangli and this appears to be
> possible.  However, do my adjacent routers need to support 
> BGP in order for
> this to work?  Could I use other routing protocols to 
> accomplish this, or
> would this require knowledge of all possible downstream 
> router IP addresses?
>
> Edward W. Ray