Re: [nsp] BGP Load Balancing

From: Zaheer Aziz (zaziz@cisco.com)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 04:40:53 EST


At 04:34 AM 10/13/2000 -0400, Ramos, Armand G. wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I would like to seek your expertise regarding load balancing set-up that I
>need to be doing on my two links. I currently have a 45Mbps and a 14 Mbps
>connection the same upstream provider. Problem is, I need to set-up a load
>balancing configuration (if there is one) for this. Is there such a config
>for two unequal connection? Primarily, what we need to achieve is to make
>the bigger link (the 45Mbps) as our primary link for our traffic and the
>lesser link (14Mbps as the flow for excess).

BGP cannot switch traffic to another interface based on thresholds (excess
in your example).
However you can do unequal load-sharing in BGP as described in
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t2/ftbgplb.htm

Hope this helps
Zaheer
> Is this feasible? If so, how
>and what will be my config?
>
>Armand

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