>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:57:58PM -0700, Pedro Roque Marques wrote: >> I'd argue that it is not. That in fact load-balancing is not in play >> when anycast is used. Inter-domain routing (bgp) will deterministically >> pick one of the available paths.
> While ECMP for eBGP isn't standardized, several major vendors have > implement some form of this. Given the lack of standardization I'm > not sure how you can say that load-balancing isn't in play. Yes, there have been some proposals in the IDR group for advertising ECMP routes in BGP. I firmly stand against the argument that BGP would advertise only one route to a destination. Yes, we could have BGP doing this for now, but 5 years down the line .. ?!? It is best to keep this option still open and suggest text appropriately. Thanks, Toms. _________________________________________________________________ web user interface: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/grow.html web archive: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/grow/
