[AusNOG] Best practice BGP and wan links

[Benoit Page-Guitard]

Hi Alex,

I assume the use case here is having redundant routers at the branch end and
using VRRP on the WAN link as a signalling mechanism for deciding which router
should "own" the WAN IP + speak BGP with the upstream router?

If so, I'd definitely opt for an extra WAN IP if you can swing it. It'll
make the whole failover scenario a lot smoother, and would also have the
indirect benefit of giving you free load balancing for your
downstream-facing LAN interfaces.

Regards,
Benoit

On Sat Jul 11, 2015 at 08:03:10 +0000, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:
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>What I was looking at doing was setting up bgp over vrrp on some mikrotik boxes, seems like it's possible, but it also seem easier to get an extra WAN ip.
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>Any one doing this ?
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