On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Dylan Ebner wrote: > I should look for other options to balance my inbound traffic.
Beyond the binary choice to advertise or not to advertise a given prefix via a given peer/upstream and/or any TE policies your peers/upstreams may support via community/attribute tagging, you've really no control over inbound traffic path selection. You can prepend, but whether other networks honor it or ignore it - or if they do honor it, *how* they honor it - is entirely beyond your control. So, vendor marketing claims aside, the concept of 'load-balancing' inbound traffic isn't really a valid one. The only actual path-selection control you have is over your outbound traffic, and that only for a single hop beyond your network, into each of your peers/upstreams. What happens after that is beyond your control, as well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken
