From: Peter van Oene (pvo@usermail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 12:10:44 GMT-3
At 01:59 AM 2/8/2003 +1100, Albert Lu wrote:
>It's a little bit more complicated than just running BGP. Firstly, localpref
>doesn't work for 1 router in 1 AS (but I've heard of doing another BGP peer
>to the router's own loopback)
Not sure why not?
>, and secondly running BGP with 1 AS per router
>in a private network environment with 2 routers is abit of an overkill just
>to get traffic engineering.
Sure, I only suggested potential solutions to a very limited issue :) ISIS
or OSPF would work as well as I noted.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>Peter van Oene
>Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 12:49 AM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: asymmetric routing?
>
>
>At 09:05 PM 2/7/2003 +1000, David Heaton wrote:
> >this is a client thinking of things for you to waste your time on !
> >
> >2 sites, 2 WAN connections between them
> >one ISDN, the other frame relay, both 128Kbps
> >
> >client wants to transmit traffic on the ISDN, and
> >receive traffic on FR:
> >
> >A - - -ISDN - -> B
> >A <- - - FR - - - B
>
>This is simply done in BGP using pref to control one direction and prepends
>or med to control the other. OSPF and ISIS could handle it equally well as
>metric are unidirectional and thus could be oppositely weighted. I'm not
>immediately aware of a way to handle it with EIGRP, though it is not a
>protocol I work with very much.
>
>
> >I haven't done this before, and don't know if it can be
> >
> >Currently there is EIGRP at both ends, but that can be
> >changed easily
> >
> >Any suggestions appreciated
> >
> >David
> >.
>.
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