Re: Failover with BGP

From: Stephen C. Feldberg (scfeldberg@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 15:39:51 GMT-3


   
Yes, you should see the remote IP as the BGP neighbor ID. That would
indicate to me that ther is no BGP Neighbor adjacency on that link, and
therefore it will not participate in BGP routing. My guess is that your
backup T1 provider does not have a BGP neighbor statement configured for
your site.

Steve
Original Message -----
From: "Bill Mckenzie" <bmckenzie@hotmail.com>
To: <dmadlan@qwest.com>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Failover with BGP

> When I do a "show ip bgp neighbor" under the backup T1 , it shows the
remote
> router ID as 0.0.0.0
>
> Should this be their side of our link to them?
>
>
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> > Is the 4th T1 only for backup? How are you routing, default routes or
> >BGP? If the former do you have a floating static if the later are you
> >receiving routes from your provider??
> >
> > more info
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >Bill Mckenzie wrote:
> > >
> > > We currently have 3 T1's from our router to one ISP and another T1 to
a
> > > different ISP. When we test failover by shutting down the 3 T1's, we
are
> >not
> > > able to pass traffic over the other T1 to the second ISP. When I do a
> >show
> > > ip route, all the routes are pointing to the first ISP's address. I
know
> > > that BGP only uses the one best path, but is there anything specific
you
> > > have to do when you test failover? Do I have to use the clear ip bgp *
> > > command?
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bill Mckenzie
> > >



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