[isp-bgp] Re: Outbound Balancing

[Pete Templin <petelists@...>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> You can set the local preference, as per James' example. The downside of 
> that is that it completely overrides looking at the path so it's a bit 
> severe. Or you can use the multi exit discriminator metric. But this has 
> a pretty much identical effect to prepending, so you need to do it 
> selectively, for instance:
For instance, ONLY if you have two pipes to an upstream, and you want to 
influence how the traffic is balanced among them INBOUND.

MED would be ignored in this person's topology.  Stick to local 
preference tuning (or prepending) based on specific ASes that are two 
ASes away from you (in other words, your providers' providers).

pt






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