No, not necessarily. BGP is designed to choose the single best path from
source to destination. You can get true load balancing by using two default
routes to the service provider (and vice versa, by having the service
provider statically route your network address space across both T1
circuits), than you ever will with BGP.
Chuck Ryan
Cisco Systems
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Chuck Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: What are the benefits of BGP?
> Doesn't the BGP give you load balancing capabilities that you would not
get
> from a static route?
>
> Tim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Breen, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: What are the benefits of BGP?
>
>
> Michael,
>
> No benefit whatsoever as long as you are homed to only 1 ISP. Stick to the
> simple road, and use static/default routes. BGP is useful if you are
> connected to multiple providers, but it's overkill/unnecessary when you
only
> have one service provider.
>
> Chuck Ryan
> Cisco Systems
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Breen, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 9:03 AM
> Subject: What are the benefits of BGP?
>
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > Currently we have 1 T-1 connection to the Internet and my company is
> > planning on putting together an E-commerce site. We determined that we
> > needed an additional T-1 for added bandwidth support. What would be the
> > benefits of using BGP in this scenario?
> >
> > Michael
> >
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