Re: Tracking a BGP session with HSRP

From: Carlos G Mendioroz (tron@huapi.ba.ar)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 13:45:14 GMT-3


If you have your peer advertise an internal network, reachability to it
would indeed track the BGP session status.
I guess it will not be long till cisco enables tracking of anything
inside the router, may be based on SNMP OIDs :)

Geert Nijs wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Topology: 2 routers with a connection to two ISPs. Inside default gateway is a HSRP address.
>
> For redundancy reasons i have configured HSRP with tracking. However, i would like to track a BGP session, not an
> interface. The reason for this is clear: the BGP session can die, while the interface remains up. HSRP would not switch in this
> case. Any ideas on how to accomplish this ?
>
> - interface tracking - nope
> - tracking with SAA (ping, TCP) - not really - i could track the possibility of TCP to the remote peer...but that is not the same as tracking the existing BGP session.
>
>
> Regards,
> Geert
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Carlos G Mendioroz  <tron@huapi.ba.ar>  LW7 EQI  Argentina


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