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Re: URPF on small BGP-enabled customers?
- From: Joe Maimon
- Date: Fri Jun 03 16:51:45 2005
Pete Templin wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
This is new to me, but I haven't bought any new transit in the past 18
months -- is
this common practice on multihomed BGP customers now? I could force
things to work
by always advertising all my prefixes out to them with the obvious
downside of
living in fear of my outbound traffic being dropped if I ever need to
withdraw any
of them.
I (a network much, much smaller than Sprint) do uRPF on all ports, but
also inform BGP customers (nine-page handoff documentation) that they
are uRPFed. However, in conjunction with community support for
adjusting localpref, we set a sufficient weight on the announcement so
that the edge node sees the customer link as preferred even if the rest
of our network doesn't, and therefore the uRPF check passes.
This sounds like the better approach. Although this is still not
strictly what the customer want, because all peers of the same edge will
prefer the edges path.
I don't think advertising more-specifics through other connections would
actually work, as the Sprint edge router would still want to reach the
more-specifics through the Sprint network, rather than the customer
link. It's all a matter of what the FIB says.
pt
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