NSP-ers,

I have a Cisco---Juniper pair connected over a pair of T3 links. The Juniper acts as a PE and is pushing two labels for a specific route learned on the PE destined to a single remote PE well beyond the Cisco P. The traffic is destined to several IP addresses clustered in this subnet (sort of like 10, 11, 12, 13) and the forwarding table shows that there are two correctly installed next-hops - same VPN label, different LDP label (we have applied several different types of hashings and of course have our forwarding table export policy in place). Nevertheless, the Juniper is doing a very poor job load- balancing the traffic, and the Cisco is splitting it almost evenly. There is in fact a larger number of routes being shared across this link (about 20 or so VPN routes in different VRFs and thus different VPN labels – all sharing the same 2 LDP labels, but one particular subnet pair is exchanging quite a bit of traffic). All of the addresses are unique within our domain.

Has anyone had issues with load-balancing a single subnet across an MPLS VPN link pair? Note again that this is a PE-P (J--C) problem and that the IP addresses are all arranged locally. I know Juniper are secretive about their hashing algorithm (can't lose any hero tests, can we?), but we are getting like 5:1 load share if we are lucky and are bumping up against the T3's capacity. The box is an M10i.

As always, any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
C

show route forwarding-table destination 10.160.2.0/24

Routing table: foo.inet
Internet:
Destination        Type RtRef Next hop           Type Index NhRef Netif
10.160.2.0/24      user     0                    indr 262175     2
                                                 ulst 262196     2
Push 74 600 1 t3-0/0/0.1000 Push 74 632 1 t3-0/0/1.1000


PE-P next-hop count (all showing load-balancing in effect)

show route next-hop 172.16.255.11 terse | match > | count
Count: 106 lines


monitor interface traffic

Interface Link Input bytes (bps) Output bytes (bps) t3-0/0/0 Up 541252651233 (25667208) 691166913860 (35611752) t3-0/0/1 Up 279149587856 (8737568) 24893605598 (20112)


Note that the Cisco is doing 25/9 Mbps and the Juniper 35/.02.






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