[isp-bgp] Re: outbound load balancing with BGP?

[James <haesu@...>]

> While it's obvious that one ISP has better connectivity than the
> other, I'd like to balance the load somewhat.  Is there any way I can
> force my local router to choose to give one peer a "bonus", weighting
> it more heavily for outbound traffic?

	pretty easy.
	since its outbound traffic that you want to TE with, setting local pref
	on select paths/routes or inbound prepending asn's will do.
	then just apply the route-maps as inbound on your transits

-J

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