Sure, it still works however (for now). -Drew
-----Original Message----- From: jeffrey.l...@gmail.com [mailto:jeffrey.l...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Lyon Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:34 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP Traffic Engineering question Isn't Route Science EOL? Jeff On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com> wrote: > Howdy, > > If you have several transit providers connected to your network and much of > your traffic is generally directed by the "BGP tiebreaker" (i.e. lowest IP > address) is there a way, without specifying on a per-prefix basis to prefer > the "tie breaker winner" slightly less often? I don't want to "completely > flip" the preference so that it just saturates a different link, I am just > trying to see if there is any good way to influence the "natural" selection > method. > > We have 6 transit providers, and Level3 always wins because it is 4/8, > normally this isn't a problem because we have traffic engineering systems > (route science/avaya) which move traffic away from that link, but if we need > to reboot the RS, or something catastrophic happens we would like it to > spread out a little more evenly. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > -Drew > > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Platinum sponsor of HostingCon 2010. Come to Austin, TX on July 19 - 21 to find out how to "protect your booty."
