Route aggregation in BIRD - how?

Jérôme Nicolle jerome at ceriz.fr
Wed Aug 15 20:15:23 CEST 2012


Le 23/01/2012 19:11, dspazman at epicup.com a écrit :
> Isn't there a case when you DON'T want the links aggregated?  If you
> have servers in 2 different data centers, both announcing a 1.1.1.1/20,
> but one also announces 1.1.1.1/22, and the other also announces
> 1.1.5.1/22, so the one data center tends to serve 1.1.1.1-1.1.4.255, and
> the other data center tends to serve 1.1.5.1-1.1.8.255, but if either
> data center goes down, the whole address range will be served by the
> other data center?
> 

On a user's perspective, I guess it has no difference to hit one
datacenter or the other. Seeing only the shortest prefix will make your
upstream choose wich one to hit.


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