RE: Splitting up outbound traffic for BGP [7:32983]

2002-01-23 Thread Bill Carter
You are having a problem with how your network is being announced to the Internet. The Internet as a whole has 1 preferred path back to your network. Check with some route-servers to verify this (see below). You could try as-path prepending toward the provider who all you inbound traffic is com

Re: Splitting up outbound traffic for BGP [7:32983]

2002-01-23 Thread Bob Timmons
I think I may have gotten this working after all. I added a second IP address to the unix box and then split up the /22 range to 2 /23 ranges and PAT'd that way. I'm seeing the rxload & txloads leveling off now. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for the input. > Load sharing on incoming traffic ca

Re: Splitting up outbound traffic for BGP [7:32983]

2002-01-23 Thread John Neiberger
Load sharing on incoming traffic can be difficult to achieve. It's affected by many different factors, most of which are beyond your control. Would it be possible to see a sanitized version of your BGP-related config on that router? To figure out why incoming traffic is behaving the way it

RE: Splitting up outbound traffic for BGP [7:32983]

2002-01-23 Thread Lupi, Guy
Bob, do you have your own AS#, and ARIN assigned IP space? If not, do you announce a prefix to the 2 providers that you received from one of them? If not, then you are correct that all your inbound takes one T1 because you have a prefix assigned to you by one of the providers which cannot be ann

RE: Splitting up outbound traffic for BGP [7:32983]

2002-01-23 Thread s vermill
Bob, I think one way to go about it is to have both ISP advertise your address (if you can talk the one that didn't issue the address into it - it adds a route in the internet). Here is a great resource for BGP load sharing (although I'm not certain that it addresses your issue specifically): h