BGP Advertise when Default Route available

[tsalt]

I have 2 routers which are Peering using EBGP.

Router B learns a default route from Router A.

Router B advertises 2 prefixes to router A.

I wish to only allow Router B to Advertise these prefixes as lond as Router B is learning a Default Route from Router A (i.e. Router A is the next hop/Neighbor for teh default route).

Is it possible to do this with Prefix Lists and a route-map?

Thanks

Tom

[ruwhite]

You should be able to do this with conditional advertisement:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080094309.shtml

Just set up the if-exit map so that as long as the default is learned from router A, the local routes are allowed, rather than denied (which I think is possible). If that doesn't work, then conditional route injection should work, instead:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1839/products_feature_guide09186a00800b5d54.html

Because it's "backwards" from conditional advertisement.

HTH.

:-)

Russ.W

[Harold Ritter · Accepted solution]

You can do that using conditional advertisement.

The following example shows how to advertise 192.168.1.0/24 only when 0/0 is being learnt from the peer:

router bgp 1

no synchronization

bgp log-neighbor-changes

network 192.168.1.0

neighbor 192.168.12.2 remote-as 2

neighbor 192.168.12.2 advertise-map ADV exist-map EXIST

no auto-summary

!

access-list 1 permit 192.168.1.0

access-list 2 permit 0.0.0.0

!

route-map ADV permit 10

match ip address 1

!

route-map EXIST permit 10

match ip address 2

!

You are able to see the status of that conditional advertisement by using the show ip bgp neighbor command:

When the condition is met:

R1#sh ip bgp neighbors

BGP neighbor is 192.168.12.2, remote AS 2, external link

..

Condition-map EXIST, Advertise-map ADV, status: Advertise

When the condition is not met:

R1#sh ip bgp neighbors

BGP neighbor is 192.168.12.2, remote AS 2, external link

..

Condition-map EXIST, Advertise-map ADV, status: Withdraw

Hope this helps,

[tsalt]

Many Thanks for this help. Will test when next week.