BGP + routing w/ multiple providers/uplinks

[Gregg Berkholtz]

Despite a few days of troubleshooting, I'm at a loss for answers, and Google is currently mocking further research attempts. Any help is greatly appreciated.

My goals & confusion:
 - The intent is to announce two /24 netblocks across both of two separate uplinks, w/ my ASN via BGP.
 - It's not clear if I need to maintain multiple routing tables, with a single "internal" autonomous system, and if so, how to facilitate that with bird's pipe function.
 - I believe I should be focusing on ensuring replies return via the originating interface - however at this point, another set of eyes would really help in hashing this out.

From the perspective of my router:
 - BGP sessions are active w/ uplinks, and providers are not filtering announcements.
 - ingress TCP connections to router's "source address" IP are established with no problem, if my BGP/routing tables instruct replies via the same interface packets happen to originate via.
 - ingress TCP connections cannot be established, if my BGP/routing tables instruct replies via a different interface than what packets happen to originate via.
 - tcpdump shows packets ingress from 1st provider, and egress towards 2nd provider, only if routing table instructs to 2nd provider...although replies never arrive at destination.
 - outbound TCP connections originating from the router itself, can be established with no issue, to either provider. Source IP matches local address of outbound route.
 - All addresses are public; this router is not doing any NAT.

Below IPs were changed to protect the innocent, guilty, and everyone in-between - all replacements were via sed -i s///g... Since I've had no luck finding a template detailing how to accomplish this, once this hashes out, I'll followup with a relevant & documented configuration template.

My bird.conf:

log syslog { debug, trace, info, remote, warning, error, auth, fatal, bug };

# Avoid martians from planet RFC1918
function avoid_martians()
prefix set martians;
{
martians = [ 169.254.0.0/16+, 172.16.0.0/12+,
             192.168.0.0/16+, 10.0.0.0/8+,
             224.0.0.0/4+, 240.0.0.0/4+,
             0.0.0.0/32-, 0.0.0.0/0{31,32}, 0.0.0.0/0{0,7} ];
if net ~ martians then return false;
return true;
}

protocol direct {
}

protocol kernel {
       learn;                  # Learn all alien routes from the kernel
       persist;                # Don't remove routes on bird shutdown
       scan time 60;           # Scan kernel routing table every 60 seconds
       import none;            # Default is import all
       export all;             # Default is export none
}

protocol device {
       scan time 60;           # Scan interfaces every 60 seconds
}

protocol static {
       route 1.0.0.0/24 via "eth0";
       route 2.0.0.0/24 via "eth0";
}

filter bgp_out {
       if net ~ [2.0.0.0/24] then accept;
       if net ~ [1.0.0.0/24] then accept;
       reject;
}

protocol bgp INET1 {
       local as 11111;
       source address 3.0.0.118;
       neighbor 3.0.0.117 as 22222;
       import all; 
       path metric 1;          # Prefer routes with shorter paths (like Cisco does)
       default bgp_med 1;      # MED value we use for comparison when none is defined
       default bgp_local_pref 100;       # The same for local preference
       export filter bgp_out;
}

protocol bgp INET2 {
       local as 11111;
       source address 4.0.0.14;
       neighbor 4.0.0.13 as 33333;
       import all; 
       path metric 1;          # Prefer routes with shorter paths (like Cisco does)
       default bgp_med 1;      # MED value we use for comparison when none is defined
       default bgp_local_pref 100;       # The same for local preference
       export filter bgp_out;
}


As for any possible "alien" routes, the only thing I'm doing is adding the spamhaus DROP list, via this script:
 ip route flush table 10; ip rule del from all table 10 priority 10; curl http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.lasso | sed 's/;/#/g' | sed 's/^[0-9]/ip\ route\ add\ blackhole\ &/g' | sed 's/ \#/ table 10 \#/' |sed '/^ip/!D' > spamhausDrop; ip rule add from all table 10 priority 10; sh spamhausDrop

In summary, it sources http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.lasso to generate a bunch of lines akin to:
 ip route add blackhole 95.64.98.0/23 table 10 # SBL90817

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Gregg Berkholtz
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