Very possible, not much different from using 1 provider as long as you have your own address space. If you don't have your own address space, you'll have to either get it from ARIN or convince one provider to advertise addresses from another providers space. They will probably do this, for a price.
Keep in mind though that the traffic patterns can vary a lot depending on the providers used. More traffic will flow through the provider that is "closer" to the peering points. The best advice is to use 2 Tier 1 providers like UUnet, ATT, Sprint, etc. I don't have it in front of me, but I'm sure there are examples of this in Sam Halabi's book "Internet Routing Architectures". HTH, Kent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cisco Nuts Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BGP Load-Balancing with 2 providers...Possible?? [7:40242] Hello, Is it possible to load-balance BGP traffic with 2 service providers...I know it is possible to load balance with 2 circuits to the same provider using ebgp-multihop and update-source and cef but with 2 circuits to 2 different providers?? Thank you for your help. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=40331&t=40242 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
