[c-nsp] Load Balancing With BGP

[Chris Strandt]

I thought I read awhile ago that OER isn't supported on the 12000 series 
routers.... maybe the situation has changed.. will have to do some reading.

-Chris

Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:

> IOS has a new feature called OER - Optimized Edge Routing, which does
> pretty much that.
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6628/products_ios_protocol_option_home.html 
>
>
> If your IOS router runs IP base you will need to upgrade to IP
> Services or better.
>
>
> Rubens
>
>
> On 9/19/06, Chris Strandt <strandtc at littleblueroom.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a semi automated way of load balancing our traffic across
>> multiple providers, but I'm curious what else is available.  Its pretty
>> painful to  re-balance at this point
>>
>> I know Internap has an appliance that looks at network traffic, and
>> statistics, but its a pretty high dollar item.  I currently have 3
>> Transit connections, using BGP, and will have 5 by the end of the year.
>>
>>
>> Is there an open source project out there?  Maybe something utilizing
>> Zebra, Flow Tools, and SNMP to intelligently load balance traffic?  I
>> basically do this now... but its only 50% automated.. and using a long
>> route map.
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