Route election

[study_voip]

3 sites, A,B,C connected with MPLS WAN

site A has network N1, site A CE use "network N1" under BGP to advertise it

Site B has static route, ip route N1 next hop xxxxx, SiteB CE BGP redistribute the static route

my question is

how Site C learn the the network N1, two routes?

how Site A reject/accept the route from siteB

Thanks

[Laurent Aubert]

Hi,

I assume you are in MPLS-VPN environment.

In this case:

1- For site C to learn N1, PE connected to site A and B needs to export N1 using route-target BGP extended community. PE connected to site C needs to import those routes. To be sure PE-C receives both routes, PE-A and PE-B should have a unique RD configured (in case there is a RR) and should both prefers their eBGP route.

2- It depends if you have the same BGP AS on site A and B and if the PEs are configured with the as-override feature. So we have the following scenarios:

- Different BGP AS: prefix accepted

- Same BGP AS with as-override: prefix accepted

- Same BGP AS without as-override: Prefix rejected.

HTH

Laurent.

[study_voip]

Thanks for your reply

it is MPLS-VPN, same BGP AS for all sites.

so siteC CE will learn two routes, one is learned from site A via "network N1", one is learned from site B via "redistribute", which one will take preference?

for site A, since it already have route to Network N1, so if site A learned one another route via site B(redistribute), how site A to make routing decision?

thanks again

[Laurent Aubert]

Hi,

Site C CE will not learn two routes but only the best one selected by Site C PE which will have the two routes.

Site C PE will apply the BGP route selection algorithm to make its choice:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094431.shtml

If PEs are configured to do as-override, Site A CE will accept the update originated from Site B but will prefer by default its local network (see link below)

HTH

Laurent.

[Laurent Aubert]

Hi,

Site C CE will not learn two routes but only the best one selected by Site C PE which will have the two routes.

Site C PE will apply the BGP route selection algorithm to make its choice:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094431.shtml

If PEs are configured to do as-override, Site A CE will accept the update originated from Site B but will prefer by default its local network (see link below)

HTH

Laurent.