Archive for January 29, 2009

Routing Challenge

I was dealing with an issue the other day at work that was kind of challenging and made my brain hurt…

Scenario

Note the diagram below.

Before Network

What we have is a simplified diagram of 4 routers. Rtr A and B are currently connected to our global ATT MPLS carrier and receiving routes via BGP from our other corporate BGP sites (expected). Rtr A and B are also advertising their own networks back out providing reachability to subnets behind Rtr A and B as well as C and D. End-to-end connectivity is easily done with the bidirectional exchange of route information — that is not the challenge here.

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