Hello,
regarding your BGP configuration, you can do the following:
for the incoming traffic (dowload from the internet):
Use the default behaviour about the AS path length except if one of your
ISP is giving you more addresses than the other (and depending of the costs)
for the outgoing traffic:
You can specify the MED value which will helps you to influence the way
the traffic from the internet is using for reaching your network.
regards
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Casarez [mailto:rick_casarez@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:51 PM
To: tomek@absolut.iksik.net; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] 2 ISPs, BGP and load-balancing
TMS-
What kind of load balance are you looking for and which direction?
Inbound or outbound or both?
If you want really load balancing you can, if your router can handle
it, run 'maximum-paths 2' global BGP command on your router. This will allow
your router to choose 2 best paths instead of the 1 (the default). If you
are receiving only partial routes from each provider then you could run
equal weight default routes pointing towards each and what doesnt get
captured from the provider announcements will be sort of balanced out for
you.
I would recommend the latter personally.
For inbound load-balancing it is a little bit harder and would
involve tweaking attributes for subnets of your prefix (or multiple
prefixes) to the providers. That I would recommend doing until it works like
you want it to.
Rick
>From: TMS
>To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
>Subject: [nsp] 2 ISPs, BGP and load-balancing
>Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:52:08 -0500
>
>Hello
>
>I have two 4mbps internet links connected to 2 diffrent ISPs. How
>I can create load-balancing between both ISPs ? At
>this moment my router configuration (Cisco 7206VXR, NPE-400)
>looks like that:
>
>!
>router bgp 60000
> network 20.20.20.0 0.0.0.255
>neighbor 1.1.1.1 weight 50
>neighbor 1.1.1.1 remote-as 10000
>neighbor 1.1.1.1 description ISP-1 (ex.UUNET)
>neighbor 1.1.1.1 filter-list 1 out
>neighbor 1.1.1.1 route-map SETMETRIC in
> neighbor 2.2.2.2 weight 50
> neighbor 2.2.2.2 remote-as 20000
> neighbor 2.2.2.2 description ISP-2 (ex.AT&T)
> neighbor 2.2.2.2 filter-list 1 out
> neighbor 2.2.2.2 route-map SETMETRIC in
>!
>ip as-path access-list permit ^60000$
>ip as-path access-list deny .*
>!
>route-map SETMETRIC permit 10
>match ip address 1
>set metric 100
>!
>access-list 10 permit any
>!
>
>Any propositions ? Maybe I must set local-preference or
>as prepend for neighbors ?
>
>--
>greets, TMS
>
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