[j-nsp] BGP Multipath

[Andrew Miehs]

As BGP knows nothing about 10G or 1G links, you will probably want to
increase the AS Path length (import and export) on the old GE connection to
convince your router that the 10G connection is better. I wouldn't bother
with multipath in your case.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Keith <kwoody at citywest.ca> wrote:

> We recently just turned up another connection to one of our upstreams, so
> now we have two. One is a GE the other is a 10GE.
>
> We are getting into new territory here.
>
> The GE connection is in use and working fine.
>
> These two connections home to two different routers on our upstream.
>
> As the BGP policy will remain the same, I was just going to add a new
> neighbour statement to that
> particular BGP group for that upstream.
>
> I was told to also add multipath to that as well if I want to use both
> connections for load balancing.
>
> Don't really want to use both as the GE will be going away sometime, but
> to make sure it works I was
> going to add the new neighbor IP address, make sure BGP comes up and
> traffic is there then remove the old neighbor
> IP address.
>
> Would this be a sensible way to do it?
>
> Thanks.
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