Re: Build GRE and eBGP peers on HSRP address?

From: Venkatesh Palani (kvpalani@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2006 - 20:31:06 GMT-3


Yeah That is a good idea to use HSRP for BGP, have you tested in the lab
? but the only problem might be the time to converge. because once the
current HSRP master looses BGP the secondary will have to take over it as
you would know how long it takes forBGP to come up some times.
HTH,
Venkatesh

On 3/21/06, Hansen Hu <hansenhu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a real case as that Hub site has 2 routers, multi-remote site each
> has 2 routers. from routers in Hub to each remote site routers have the
> full
> meshed circuits. I am planning to build the eBGP from remote site routes
> to
> hub site routers over the GRE tunnel. But for redundancy I have to build 4
> GRE tunnels and 4 eBGP peers for each of sites. My thinking is if I can
> use
> the HSRP IP address for the GRE tunnel dest. and source IP, also use the
> HSRP address as the peer IP address of the eBGP? By this way I only need
> build 1 GRE tunnel and eBGP peer to provide the redundancy.
>
> Thanks,
> Harrison
>
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