RE: [nsp] [nsp] best practice for bgp load balancing with unequal bandwidth

From: Stephane Perez (perezs@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 09:42:34 EST


>> Unfortunately, some of our upstreams have never head of what a
"community" is ;(

 You normally should be able to change the community string in your routers
by setting the policy on your boxes

/stephane
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-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel A.L. Paraz [mailto:map@internet.org.ph]
Sent: 21 March 2001 13:48
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] [nsp] best practice for bgp load balancing with
unequal bandwidth

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:55:40AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> 3. Check with the upstream provider(s) what kind of "community" settings
> exist to control incoming traffic. This can often be finer grained
> than prepending.

Unfortunately, some of our upstreams have never head of what a "community"
 is ;(

What I do, is look at the Netflow stats coming from our different transit
links as a guide on who to AS-path prepend.

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