Chapter 13: IP Policy-Based Forwarding Configuration Guide

Prioritizing Service to Customers

An ISP can use policy-based routing on an access router to supply different customers with different levels of service. The sample configuration in Figure 20 shows an SSR using an IP policy to classify customers and route traffic to different networks based on customer type.

Premium Customer

10.50.*.*

Standard Customer

11.50.*.*

ISP

High-Cost, High Availability

Network 100.1.1.1

et.1.1

Policy

Router

et.1.2

Low-Cost Network

200.1.1.1

Figure 20. Using an IP policy to prioritize service to customers

Traffic from the premium customer is load balanced across two next-hop gateways in the high-cost, high-availability network. If neither of these gateways is available, then packets are forwarded based on dynamic routes learned via routing protocols.

Traffic from the standard customer always uses one gateway (200.1.1.1). If for some reason that gateway is not available, packets from the standard customer are dropped.

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