[c-nsp] Load balancing outbound traffic with BGP

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:54:13PM -0600, Jeff Chan wrote:
> Are there any other approaches?  How about jumbling up or staggering  
> the local preferences:

Stupid idea.  local-pref is evil - and MUCH too aggressive.  That way
you'll send almost all your traffic to the ISP with the highest local-pref,
no matter how long and bad the paths are.

If you need to steer traffic among nearly-equal peers, use MED.

gert
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