[c-nsp] Load balancing/sharing

[Tom Sands]

I don't know of a way to do this with BGP alone, but if you ran OSPF or 
EIGRP internally you could probably get away with setting a variance for 
the differences in the links capacity.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/459/40.html


c-nsp at netophilia.net wrote:

> Hello,
> I currently have a single GigabitEthernet link between 2 Cisco 12008
> routers connecting our sites (about 130 miles between us). One of the
> routers is speaking bgp with our upstreams, and we also have an internal
> bgp session between the routers. As we have approached full utilization on
> this Gigabit link, we have now ordered a second Gigabit link between the
> sites. This Gigabit link will initially be only 200 Mb/s. Basically, the
> new Gigabit link was purchased to handle the overflow from the initial
> Gigabit link. Question is, is there a way for me to configure load sharing
> across these unequal internal links, should I be looking to route specific
> subnets across the 2 links to manually split the load, or is there some
> other way to accomplish this? Thanks for any input.
> 
> 
> ___
> Dan
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