Not sure what I'm seeing... (Looking Glass Query)
Hello! Hope nobody minds a quick question from a small, non-transit but BGP aware AS... Since the day we started using multiple circuits and BGP I've always seen multiple paths through each of our providers to our network (AS 19138). At least a few C&W (3561) and at least a few Network Virginia (7066) via Sprint... For weeks or more now, every single looking glass save one shows - for the most part - a single advertised path through C&W. No sign of Sprint & Network Virginia. Even the Sprint looking glass shows no sign of a Sprint path to us. The one exception is route-views.oregon-ix.net which shows about 50... almost all of which are C&W. If I pull down the C&W circuit, things shift and Sprint starts showing up with multiple paths in all the looking glasses but will remain that way after the C&W circuit comes back online until I bring down the Sprint circuit. It seems to be one or the other... but never both. Is this not a big deal and I'm misreading the situation, or has something changed for the worse somewhere in our advertising and relationship with our providers? I can't seem to track down a cause. I've certainly made no changes to my BGP tables and announcements upstream. For anyone interested in glancing at their routes for me, check 198.28.32.0/19 and AS 19138. Thanks! - Aaron Mahler Sweet Briar College P.S. Feel free to yell at me if this post shouldn't be here. I've been lurking for ages and enjoy following the discussions of the very knowledgeable crew out there. Not sure what other forum to ask such a question at this point...
we see the cw route 286 209 3561 19138 i think its looks okay.. as you know in bgp the shortest as path is chosen first, and it is that which is propogated. i think what you might be seeing is the fact that the cw routes are better as they are all shorter: 7911 3561 19138 5056 3561 19138 1 3561 19138 the net vriginia ones all having an extra hop because net virginia connects to sprint and then on from there: 4006 1239 7066 19138 6395 1239 7066 19138 3549 1239 7066 19138 so as they go across the routers the net virginia ones tend to be filtered out in preference to cw why dont you try prepending an extra 19138 onto your announcement into cw, that should even things up and then take another look at the routing table.. Steve On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Aaron Mahler wrote:
Hello!
Hope nobody minds a quick question from a small, non-transit but BGP aware AS...
Since the day we started using multiple circuits and BGP I've always seen multiple paths through each of our providers to our network (AS 19138). At least a few C&W (3561) and at least a few Network Virginia (7066) via Sprint...
For weeks or more now, every single looking glass save one shows - for the most part - a single advertised path through C&W. No sign of Sprint & Network Virginia. Even the Sprint looking glass shows no sign of a Sprint path to us.
The one exception is route-views.oregon-ix.net which shows about 50... almost all of which are C&W.
If I pull down the C&W circuit, things shift and Sprint starts showing up with multiple paths in all the looking glasses but will remain that way after the C&W circuit comes back online until I bring down the Sprint circuit. It seems to be one or the other... but never both.
Is this not a big deal and I'm misreading the situation, or has something changed for the worse somewhere in our advertising and relationship with our providers? I can't seem to track down a cause. I've certainly made no changes to my BGP tables and announcements upstream.
For anyone interested in glancing at their routes for me, check 198.28.32.0/19 and AS 19138.
Thanks! - Aaron Mahler Sweet Briar College
P.S. Feel free to yell at me if this post shouldn't be here. I've been lurking for ages and enjoy following the discussions of the very knowledgeable crew out there. Not sure what other forum to ask such a question at this point...
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