Thursday, August 15, 2019

eBGP Manipulation

Hey everyone,Have a BGP related question. Lets say, Site A (me) has two EBGP links with Site B, two different ISP providers (ISP 1 and 2). The same prefixes are advertised out of both links from the client (Site B). Traffic will be initiated from my side, Site A to Site B. I'm looking to manipulate the traffic outbound to prefer ISP 1 over 2 (primary and secondary).

  1. Plan is to set a higher local preference on the primary ISP link. Create a route map/prefix list and apply the RM on the BGP neighbour, "IN" direction so it's received by our site.
  2. Here is my question. Is it advisable to also create a route map/prefix list and applied it to the "OUT" direction on the same BGP neighbour to ensure the return traffic also follows via the primary ISP 1 link, for eg, I can prepend the neighbourship link on ISP 2 to make it longer so ISP 1 appears shorter and more desirable. Is this advisable or not at all required?

Any other feedback is more than welcome, besides my question

Thanks!



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