Answer by Ronnie Royston for Active\Passive Routers w\ BGP
Yes this is a common scenario for dual homed businesses. Although, you don't want to have each Internet facing gateway dual homed, i.e. your diagrammed topology is over-engineered and will result in...
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VRRP takes care of router failure only - the routers need to run two virtual routers for WAN, one each for Provider1 and Provider2. For the LAN side you run a third virtual router.For provider...
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Answer by Jeff Wheeler for Active\Passive Routers w\ BGP
Ingress TrafficMany large IP transit networks support BGP community features including the ability to identify customer-advertised routes as backup routes, which then receive a worse/lower...
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From what you've described, I take it as you don't really mind if traffic comes in via Provider 1 or Provider 2, you just wish to make sure ALL traffic (Prior to a failover scenario) comes in via...
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Active\Passive Routers w\ BGP
What I'm trying to do is take two routers, "A" and "B" where 'A' is the primary router. Just like with active\passive firewalls and HSRP I want to "float" the default gateway between either Router A...
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