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Re: BGP - weight

  • From: Sven Huster
  • Date: Wed Feb 18 06:46:33 2004 
Thanks for anyone who answered.
Guess, we sorted it out now.

Sven

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 07:31:46PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> 
...
> 
> SH> As this is a small network internally everything is routed
> SH> via static routes.
> 
> Except for the smallest of networks, I try to avoid static
> routes.  It's additional work and opportunity for error.  Using
> BGP + TCP MD5 auth, OSPF auth, hardcoded ARP entries, per-port
> MAC address restrictions, prefix lists, route maps, etc., one can
> run a dynamic network and still keep security under control.
> 
> 
> SH> R1 and R2 have full BGP views from the transit providers as
> SH> well as partial view from the peers.
> 
> Why not arrange the routers and switch in a single VLAN?  (Or did
> I misunderstand your earlier ASCII-art diagram?)  I usually use
> something like:
> 
> 	10.0.0.1/32  local sinkhole
> 	10.0.0.2/28  virtual router (HSRP/VRRP; maybe XRRP now)
> 	10.0.0.3/28  physical router #1
> 	10.0.0.4/28  physical router #2
> 	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
> 	10.0.0.13/28 [routing] switch #2
> 	10.0.0.14/28 [routing] switch #1
...