Manual:Simple BGP Multihoming

Applies to RouterOS: all

Setup

Ilustration below shows simple multihomed BGP setup. This setup can be used for load sharing between ISPs or one ISP as main and other ISP as backup link.

Lets say that local Internet registry assigned to us two /24 networks: 10.1.1.0/24 and 10.1.2.0/24 and our AS is 30 (Private AS cannot be used in such setups). First network entirely is used for workstations in our corporate network. Part of the other network is also used for workstation and another part is reserved for server. At this point our company has only one server with address 10.1.2.130

The goal is advertise our assigned networks to BGP peers and use only one provider as main link, ISP2 link is for backup only.

Note: This example does not show how to provide connectivity between core router, local networks and servers

BGP Peering

Consider that IP connectivity between ISPs edge routers and Our Core router is already set up and working properly. So we can start to establish BGP peering to both ISPs.

#set our AS number
/routing bgp instance
set default as=30

#add BGP peers
/routing bgp peer
add name=toISP1 remote-address=192.168.1.1 remote-as=10
add name=toISP2 remote-address=192.168.2.1 remote-as=20

If everything is set up properly, peer should have E (established) flag and router should receive bunch of BGP routes from both ISPs

[admin@RB1100test] /routing bgp peer> print 
Flags: X - disabled, E - established 
 #   INSTANCE        REMOTE-ADDRESS                                 REMOTE-AS  
 0 E default         192.168.1.1                                    10       
 1 E default         192.168.1.2                                    20 

Network Advertisements and Routing Filters

Now we can start to advertise our networks and filter out all other unnecessary advertisements.

First step is to advertise our networks

/routing bgp network
add network=10.1.1.0/24 synchronize=no
add network=10.1.2.0/24 synchronize=no

Next step is to specify which routing filter chains will be used

/routing bgp peer
set isp1 in-filter=isp1-in out-filter=isp1-out
set isp2 in-filter=isp2-in out-filter=isp2-out

in-filter is for incoming (received) prefixes, out-filter is for advertised prefixes.

After chains are specified we can accept our networks and drop everything else as we are not transit provider

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