Re: BGP Load Balancing to 2 ISP's Q

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:20:05 -0700

BGP cannot load balance by default, taking into effect the bandwidth parameter.  However, ther is a good workaround for this.
 
It explains BGP load balancing very well
 
Geoffrey
 
"Brian" <> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Doug Guth wrote:
>
> > Can BGP really "load balance"?  I have 2 ISP's with unequal pipes to them
> > (one is 768k the other is full T1. It's a long story but that is what I have
> > to work with for the forseeable future).  I want to truely balance across
> > the links.  I know I can set the route maps and work with weight, local
> > preference, shortest as-path, etc... But how can I factor in bandwidth and
> > utilization?
> >
>
> In the sense you are thinking, behaving like an IGP does........or like
> CEF would work over say parallel serial links.........the answer is no, it
> cannot.
>
> Brian
>
>
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> >
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