Hi.  If bandwidth isn't an issue, you could switch to a failover BGP  configuration instead of load sharing.  To do this, send a community to transit2 that lowers the localpref of your routes in their AS.  Then all traffic will take the path through transit1.

-Ejay

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim Godden [mailto:housing@...Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:08 AM
To: isp-bgp@isp-bgp.com
Subject: [isp-bgp] Changing inbound traffic


Hope some of you have suggestions for this :
- We have 2 transit providers (call them transit1 and transit2). Most traffic runs through 
transit1, due to the fact that it's a larger and better-connected network.
- Customers from a certain ISP want to connect to us very fast (we have gameservers, 
so latency is important).
- The ISP has 2 possible routes to our transit1 : carrier1 and carrier2.
- The fastest route is carrier1 (12ms).
- The other route (via carrier2) is slower (40ms).
- It seems carrier2 is cheaper for them and they've set a preference for that route.
- How can we influence this route, so that carrier1 is used, if it's possible ?


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