[AusNOG] Best practice BGP and wan links

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

Yeah that was sort of my thought, I guess I have to start the process of asking for the extra IP..

A

-----Original Message-----
From: Benoit Page-Guitard [mailto:benoit at anchor.net.au] 
Sent: Saturday, 11 July 2015 11:13 PM
To: Alex Samad - Yieldbroker
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Best practice BGP and wan links

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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