[c-nsp] load share eBGP and iBGP

[Tony]

--- On Mon, 14/2/11, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:

> From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <oboehmer at cisco.com>
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] load share eBGP and iBGP
> To: "Tony" <td_miles at yahoo.com>, cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Received: Monday, 14 February, 2011, 6:35 PM
>  
> > We have a PE router that terminates a DSL session from
> two CE routers,
> R1 &
> > R2. R1 & R2 are at the same location and share the
> same LAN network.
> > 
> > R1 is the default gateway for the network at this
> location and I want
> it to
> > do load sharing on both of the links (ie. the one from
> R1 and also
> R2). I'm
> > aware of the problems/issues that can/may arise, but
> this is what
> would like
> > to be done.
> 
> 
> If you go down the "turn ibgp to ebgp using local-as" route
> and use ebgp
> multipath, I guess you also need "bgp bestpath as-path
> multipath-relax"
> to compare ebgp paths with different as-path
> 

Just a quick follow up, been too busy/lazy to get back sooner.

I used "bgp bestpath as-path multipath-relax" along with making both of the paths the same AS length and it is working as I would like now.

Thanks,
Tony.