Hello Whomever , BGP has -NO- functionality -UNTIL- you have more than one provider . Is that part understandable ? All you will get for your efforts is the present BGP tables that -YOUR- provider wishes to send to you . BGP is for making routing decisions across MULTIPLE connections to MULTIPLE providers . Hth , JimL On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 linux-net@ddx.a2000.nu wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > > This has nothing to do with netfilter/ipchains. > > > > Please read up on gateD (www.gated.org) or Zebra (www.zebra.org, > > recommended). Please be aware that configuring BGP is not for > > faint-hearted, and BGP does not win you anything if both your ethernet > > connections are to the same ISP. > > > > As I understand, you have one box colo'd at some ISP, and that ISP offers > > you a second ethernet jack? If so, its useless to have BGP or anything... > The reason why we want a second connection > is because we had some downtime because a failed switch at the isp > so the second connection will be a connection to a second switch > > i also saw http://bird.network.cz/ and http://www.mrtd.net/ > so why do i choose bird, mrtd, zebra of gated (or something else?) > > we have multiple boxes colo'd behind one linux router (which works great) > so i'm looking at a deamon or kernel patch for using bgp4 > and still being able to use ipchains (and later ipfilter) for > firewall/accounting rules > > > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
