[c-nsp] Distributing BW across dissimilarly sized links

Michael K. Smith mksmith at adhost.com
Mon Jul 10 18:26:00 EDT 2006


Hello Peter:


On 7/10/06 2:56 PM, "Peter Kranz" <pkranz at unwiredltd.com> wrote:

> Given a situation where a customer (AS #1) has 1 6 Mb/s Wireless Ethernet
> link, and 1 T-1 1.5 Mb/s link into an ISP AS# with BGP sessions on both
> links..
> 
> What's the most elegant way to load balance per flow (not per packet since
> the 2 links have different latencies) into the ISP to take advantage of both
> links simultaneously?
> 
I think this might do the trick.  This is the BGP Link Bandwidth
configuration guide for 12.2T.  It shows support in 12.0(24)S and I would
assume it's supported in 12.3 and 12.4 but I didn't check so YMMV.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1839/products_fea
ture_guide09186a00800b5d5e.html

Regards,

Mike



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