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Thread Index Re: [isp-bgp] TE practices when peered to two big upstreams?
On (07/01/05 14:49), Colo Host wrote: > > What other ways exist to get this traffic a little better distributed > with most BGP decision making things being equal? > i think both are capable of tagging their customer routes, then you can apply policy based on those communities to balance the load a bit you can also pref based on asn and/or prefix...kind of ugly, but it is essentially all the magic routing boxen do, to distribute the load. pref short as path, pref 0/8 through 64/8 to one, 65/8 through 128/8 to the other, etc etc bgp picks the oldest path, all other things being equal, because that implies a more stable path. unless bgp is picking the very wrong path, i personally don't like to muck with things like this /joshua -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams - To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. Copyright 2005 Jupitermedia Corporation All Rights Reserved.
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