I am multihomed with my two providers. Both providers are accepting routes from me. The problem I have is provider 1 ips are going in provider 2 pipes. I only want this to happen when provider 1 fails. Is there a weigh to configure the routes so that this will happen. I am using BGP with my two providers.
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BGP multihomed Routes
- Thread starter RadioX
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Be very careful. If both ISPs are accepting routes you can easily find yourself becoming the best path to foreign AS's. You can also end up black hole-ing someone. Both would be really bad. The simple fix is to change the local preference for isp 1's AS and perhaps change it's weight on the router to isp 2. I advise you not to fiddle with the configs unless you're absolutely sure of the results since an error can really suck (for you as well as others).
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