BGP AS PATH PREPENDING

AS prepending is very important for path selection; you can manage the incoming traffic to your site. Many customers use this feature for active/passive DC design. Today I will show you this BGP feature with a basic CISCO lab.

We announce the same IP subnet for redundancy If the DC-1 fails or any problem occurs. I prepared the basic lab with PNET.

When I check the BGP route table on the PROVIDER router, the AS Path is the same length.

I will configure the prepend feature on the BGP-DC-2 router as below.

route-map PREPEND permit 10

 set as-path prepend 5252 5252

router bgp 5252

 bgp log-neighbor-changes

 network 192.168.24.0

 neighbor 2.2.2.1 remote-as 5353

 neighbor 2.2.2.1 route-map PREPEND out

Also, I change the BGP timer on the Provider router to see the result quickly.

router bgp 5353

 timers bgp 3 30

After the configuration is completed, the result is below;

This is subnet base redundancy.

Let's test for redundancy.

Thanks for Reading.

The topology and configuration are below.

BGP-DC-2

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