[nsp] BGP dmzlink-bw?

[Jared Mauch]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:43:32PM -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> 
> I'm reading through some Cisco docks and I stumbled upon a BGP feature 
> called 'BGP Link Bandwidth'  From the looks of it this is a way I can 
> load balance my inbound and outbound traffic with my eBGP peers.  Does 
> anyone have an idea if it works?
> 
> I have 3 peers,
> 
>  15mbps with Verio
>  9mbps with Sprint
>  10mbps with cent.net  (cheap bandwidth).
> 
> I want to load balance my inbound & outbound traffic between Verio & 
> Sprint.  I'm pulling full routes from both.  I haven't played with 
> local_pref yet. Right now the peer with the oldest BGP session wins 
> most of the traffic.   I know I can play with local_prefs which is what 

	You may be able to tweak this by setting:

router bgp 1
 bgp always-compare-med
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 bgp deterministic-med

> I was planning on doing.  I was digging through the docs when I found 
> the dmzlink-bw stuff.
> 
> I guess I can enable it and see what works...


	Verio and Sprint allow you to influence your traffic by
sending them communities.

	These links may be helpful to you:

http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#communities
http://www.sprintlink.net/policy/bgp.html

	I would suggest asking your other provider if they have similar
communities available for use.  This is probally your best bet for
managing your traffic patterns in an inteligent and effetive manner.

	- jared

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