[c-nsp] BGP and load balancing... kinda

Jon Lewis jlewis at lewis.org
Fri Feb 23 21:36:18 EST 2007


On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Shaun wrote:

> Say i had a ethernet 1000mbit uplink to ISP_A and ISP_B and DS3 uplink
> to ISP_C... doing bgp with all 3.  What would happen if the DS3 started
> to reach capacity, would the router know and start pushing traffic out
> ISP_A or B?

No.

> or is this somthing i have to try to balance on my own?

Either on your own or with one of several commercial solutions that does 
the magic for you.

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