[c-nsp] Load balancing outbound traffic with BGP

Simon Leinen simon.leinen at switch.ch
Thu Feb 28 08:26:39 EST 2008


Pete Templin writes:
> 11.  If the following conditions are true, insert the route for this 
> path into the IP routing table:

> - Both the best route and this route are external.
> - Both the best route and this route are from the same external 
> autonomous system.
> - The maximum-paths router configuration command is enabled.

> Seems to me that three different upstreams would fail the second 
> condition, so it wouldn't work for this person's application.

That's why you need "bgp bestpath as-path multipath-relax".
(Which I haven't tried, but noticed that 12.2(33)SRC parses it.)
-- 
Simon.


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