A prepend will surely influence the inbound traffic. Is most of your
traffic currently arriving via the provider your doing BGP with? What
exactly are you seeing?? Why are you even doing BGP with a private AS
that is incoming only?? With the info you provided it's hard to give a
good answer.
dave
suaveguru wrote:
>
> do you think having them change private AS to public
> AS number then do AS-PREPEND will be able to do some
> kind of influencing?
>
> regards,
> suaveguru
> --- MADMAN wrote:
> >
> > You have no way of influencing via BGP the inbound
> > routes since your
> > using a private AS on one link and default on the
> > other. You need to
> > work with your providers if you wish to have
> > incoming traffic to your
> > network influenced one way or the other.
> >
> > suaveguru wrote:
> > >
> > > hi all
> > >
> > > I have been cracking my head with this
> > load-balancing
> > > issue but still no answer .
> > >
> > > It goes as such
> > >
> > > Customer A has two providers to Internet
> > >
> > > The first provider runs BGP with Customer A and is
> > > only a Receive-Only Inbound link over Satellite
> > >
> > > The second provider is a terrestrial link
> > full-duplex
> > > but the customer does not run BGP with them but
> > purely
> > > a default route
> > >
> > > Question is how can I use BGP to balance the
> > traffic
> > > between the two providers for the Inbound traffic
> > to
> > > the customer.
> > >
> > > I have been contemplating on using AS-PATH prepend
> > but
> > > was not so ready to use it because the customer
> > does
> > > not have their own AS-NUMBER and is using private
> > AS
> > > number provided by the first satellite provider
> > and
> > > the first provider simply strip private AS-Numbers
> > at
> > > their router
> > >
> > > Any form of input will be greatly appreciated
> > >
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