RE: EIGRP vs EBGP for fast failover

Let me give more information. I need to failover to a backup internet
connection from an MPLS connection in under 5 seconds. I can do this with
modifying the EIGRP timers, but I want to know if I can do this with EBGP as
this is what a potential MPLS provider supports (they do not support EIGRP).

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronnie Angello [mailto:ronnie.angello_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:54 PM
To: Paul Bernard
Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: EIGRP vs EBGP for fast failover

You probably need to provide more information. How is this working
today with EIGRP? How would running BGP benefit you in this
particular case? Are you BGP peering with each provider and using
EIGRP as an "IGP lifeline?" What do you consider fast failover?
Typically you don't mention BGP and fast convergence in the same
sentence... :) What else are you trying to accomplish?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Paul Bernard <theballman2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to use EBGP to do a fast failover from one provider to another.
Right
> now, I have it working with EIGRP. Is there anyway of doing this with
EBGP?
> What are the consequences of doing this?
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