RE: BGP Load-Balancing with 2 providers...Possible?? [7:40242]

2002-04-03 Thread Kent Hundley
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

Re: BGP Load-Balancing with 2 providers...Possible?? [7:40242]

2002-04-03 Thread Cisco Nuts
Thank you all.. From: MADMAN Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cisco Nuts CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BGP Load-Balancing with 2 providers...Possible?? [7:40242] Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:08:20 -0600 I'm assuming your getting full routes from each provider. You will most likely get

Re: BGP Load-Balancing with 2 providers...Possible?? [7:40242]

2002-04-03 Thread MADMAN
I'm assuming your getting full routes from each provider. You will most likely get a rough load balance based on the randomness of the sites your users are connecting to and your upstreams a roughly equal, i.e. 90% of your routes are not learned via provider A. But your not going to get a 50/50