[j-nsp] BGP Multipath

[Payam Chychi]

Hey, 

Why not prepend the routes out of ur gigE? That way it becomes the backup link and u can turn down bgp anytime you want on the gigE without impact


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Payam Chychi
Network Engineer / Security Specialist


On Thursday, 18 July, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Keith 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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