I don't know if I can stand it.... I mean the comments on this right wing blog are absurd... really... Glenn Beck is so full of shit I can't even stand it. How do I know its that douchebags fault? Well.. because the comments reflect the shit he says. Suddenly Government regulation for "net-neutrality" via the FCC is "socialism"..... Yet under Bush, the FCC was tasked with cleaning up TV and Radio? Yet, that seemed to be taken very well by most of the right winger's? Explain that one? I can't... its sensor ship... the very thing they're afraid of the most when it comes to the internet and their first amendment rights being taken... because them "Libtards" control the FCC... You do realize that your ignorance is very blatant when it comes to this issue right? I mean... you honestly only parrot the likes of the guy that started the argument to begin with... AT&T's CEO? yeah... your all about Big Corps Capitalism aren't you... guess who looses in that? You... you asshat.
At work, I had a situation arrive where I have two buildings connected together with Metro Optical Ethernet. There are two lines, one 100Mbit Ethernet line through Utopia and another 200Mbit Ethernet line through Qwest.
I initially had a simple /30 subnet static route accross each line, with preferences as to which line to use. However... since these lines have optical to ethernet devices on each end... the only way my simple static route would fail over was if those devices lost power and shut down the link between them and my switches. So something a little more redundant that would check the actual connectivity of the lines was needed.
Enter OSPF, I had decided on using OSPF to enable dynamic routing for these networks. I will past show the relavent bits of my code here for future reference.
From my hub switch (main switch... with default route connected)
policy-options {
policy-statement export_default_route_into_ospf {
from term1
from {
route-filter 0.0.0.0/0 exact;
}
then accept;
}
term term2 {
then reject;
}
}
}
protocols {
ospf {
export export_default_route_into_ospf;
area 0.0.0.0 {
interface ge-0/0/1.0 {
metric 10;
}
interface ge-1/0/1.0 {
metric 20;
}
}
}
From the spoke switch:
protocols {
ospf {
area 0.0.0.0 {
interface ge-0/0/1.0 {
metric 10;
}
interface ge-1/0/1.0 {
metric 20;
}
interface vlan.101 {
passive;
}
interface vlan.102 {
passive;
}
}
}
}
For simplicity's sake, interface ge-0/0/1.0 is connected to the same interface on the other switch stack... But that should be the whole config... each vlan on the spoke side, needs to be added to the same ospf area to be advertised to the other side.
After adding this... i was able to remove my static routes and everything has worked fine since. I've even had problems with the line since then... it failed over with out much trouble. I didn't even get a call about it.
