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HSRP & BGP Behaviour

sysnetusp1
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We currently have an existing 3945 doing BGP with our ISP. We'd like to put in a second router and utilise HSRP on our internal side to improve redundancy. Our ISP has suggested we do separate BGP peering sessions on the 2 routers towards them and use AS Pre-ending to favour a particular path back into our AS. I've attached a diag.

I'f we do this, how do we influence the internet to re-route back into us if  one of the internal interfaces say Router A F0/0 goes down? Or should we also run HSRP on the ISP facing interfaces?

Appreciate suggestions.

Thks

Terry

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gerald.suiza
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pre-pending will take make an AS path to a peer longer which will be less preferred. so if you pre-pend on one router on the WAN peer that will make it less preferred. your two routers should have iBGP between them. i do not think you need HSRP but it may depend on what you want to achieve. lets hear what the others have to say.

Marwan ALshawi
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hi there

if the internal switch is L3 capable then run iBGP between the switch and the two routers with out using HSRP

advertise the internal networks from the internal switch using iBGP with both routers if Fa0/0 fail then Router1 will stop advertising and Router2 will be used even if you do AS Prepending

however now because you are going to change the active standby method from HSRP to pure ibgp/eBGP routing

then you need to let the internal switch prefer the route coming from router1 for outbound direction this is can be done by using local preference

in router 1 increase the local preference for the route coming from the ISP side and apply this route-map in the inbound direction from the ISP Peer

this way R1 qill be the main path for outbound and inbound traffic and the other path is a failover

the other method is to Keep the HSRP and use static routes to point to the internal switch in each of the routers for the internal networks point to the internal switch relevant interface and use ip sla/ tracking with those static routes to monitor the interface status of fa0/0

redistribute this static route into BGP and if the interface is down i mean fa0/0 the static routes will go down and the route will be withdrawn from the BGP routing table at this router

but if you switch support L3 routing using first method simpler and more scalable

Hope this help

personally i would go L3. once configured correctly it will work flawlessly.

cool,

yes the Switch is L3 Capable so will try out the iBGP methodolgy...looks much simpler.

Thks

Terry

I've tested it out and it works. Switchover takes approx 180 sec due to  the holdtimers of BGP. If I were to modify this what would be a  suggested value? 10sec Hello 30sec Holddown. Are there any side effects to lowering these values?

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