It seems that if you are only getting partial routes from each of the
connections, you are probably using your gateway of last resort for most of
your outbound traffic.
When you enabled the maximum-paths, you enabled load balancing for the
partial routes you are getting, but again, that is probably not what most of
your traffic is going to. I would then configure 4 default gateways, one
for each T1. You should then load-distribute per-desiccation/per-session.
Thanks
-Nate
"moe humm" wrote in message
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> Hey gang,
>
> I have a question on maximum-paths in BGP;
>
> This is the scenario: 4 T1's running EBGP to our ISP in a multihome peer
> session; each of the circuits go to a different POP. Each of the peer
> sessions receive a partial routing table from our provider. What we have
> found is that load sharing (outbound to our ISP) is virtually
non-existant.
>
>
> well, i'm studying for BCSN and came across the maximum path feature, and
it
> seems like the solution.
>
> My question is this: we have enabled maximum-path 4 to load share between
> the four sessions. This, however has had a neglible effect. Does the
fact
> that we still hear routes from the provider from different pops affect
this?
>
> In other words, since the 4 pops are in a different geographical area, and
> therefore may send a different bgp table which in turns overrides the
> maximum path command.
>
> I want to try having the provider send a default route instead; the
thought
> being that our router will not have to decide on best paths, and leave
that
> to ISP router, but the powers to be don't want that (for some reason...)
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> thanks all,
>
> moe
>
>
>
>
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