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Re: [isp-bgp] TE practices when peered to two big upstreams?
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  • Subject: Re: [isp-bgp] TE practices when peered to two big upstreams?
  • From: Erik Haagsman <erik@...>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:24:45 +0100

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 23:03, joshua sahala wrote:
> 
> the question that i have is why do people want to see a totally even (or
> as close to it as possible) distribution of traffic on their links, 
> especially when it will take messing with things that probably should 
> not be touched unless absolutely necessary?  in my network, i like
> stability and predictability...'routing magic' boxen tend to make things
> much less stable and predictable (but then the traffic graphs have a nice
> flat-line)

No-one mentioned even distribution...colohost mentioned the "better
path" which you will not get by relying on as-path as a metric.

BTW...I said boxes like RouteScience won't fit any situation, I merely
mentioned them as an option (that I would't use either) for tweaking
BGP.

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[isp-bgp] TE practices when peered to two big upstreams?, Colo Host
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Re: [isp-bgp] TE practices when peered to two big upstreams?, Erik Haagsman
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