Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] BGP design question

From: Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:47:48 +0000

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:54, Patrice Ngassam <pangassam_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a customer that is dual homed to the same partner using BGP. One link
> is primary and the second is backup. We are looking for scenario where the
> bgp peer on the primary link will be shutdown automatically in case of
> failure of the primary circuit. Traffic will failover to the backup circuit
> and would never switch automatically the primary even if the circuit comes
> back unless we manually re-enable the bgp peer on the primary circuit. Is
> that do-able? Does anyone have a better alternative?

Take a look at "neighbor fall-over" command. You can use it to
accomplish exactly what you have in mind.

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