[c-nsp] BGP Balancing

[Chris Gotstein]

It's actually both, but i'm mostly concerned with inbound traffic.

On 3/20/2010 1:39 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> For inbound traffic our outbound traffic?  Or both?  MED's are not going to
> help here...
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Gotstein
> Sent: March-20-10 1:19 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] BGP Balancing
>
> We are a small ISP that is multi-homed to 2 providers.  Each link is
> 45mbs and we are receiving full bgp routing tables from each provider.
> I've been trying to load balance the traffic going out over these two
> connections, but am looking for some advice on other tricks i can try.
> Unfortunately, only one provider sends MED metrics, so i'm unable to use
> the bgp med for path selection.  I'm currently using 'bgp bestpath
> as-path multipath-relax' and 'maximum-paths 2'.   One link still gets
> 75% of the traffic, which i believe is do to the fact it has a lower ip
> address than the other link.  Any suggestions on configurations i can
> try to influence better path load balancing?
>

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Chris Gotstein
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