[c-nsp] BGP Balanced

[Tantsura, Jeff]

Totally agree with Ejay.
Best way to do it is community stamping. Your SP of course has to
support this.

Jeff


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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ejay Hire
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:05 AM
To: bep at whack.org; 'Alexandra Alvarado'
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] BGP Balanced

On an unrelated note, MED is poorly implemented and understood on the
internet at large, and should usually be avoided.  Misconfiguration can
cause route flapping and is difficult to troubleshoot.

-ejay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Bruce Pinsky
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:03 PM
> To: Alexandra Alvarado
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP Balanced
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> Alexandra Alvarado wrote:
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> | What about BGP Multi Exit Discriminator (MED)?
> |
>
>
> Generally speaking, that would only apply if you actually
had
> multiple BGP
> peers to the same provider and therefore could choose
between
> exit points.
> ~ Here it sounds like you will simply have one exit path
and
> need to send
> traffic over multiple physical connections.
>
> As some have pointed out, BGP may be overkill in this
situation.
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