Right. Which is not ideal. > On Nov 12, 2020, at 7:11 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are smarter people than me here on the topic of BGP, but I believe > load balancing via prepends is an inexact science. It's like the guy with > the broom in curling, you can influence but not dictate the outcome. > > You'd probably have better control advertising each subnet via just one of > the upstream providers, but then you lose the advantage of redundant feeds. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 5:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] Multiple carriers > > I have a situation where I can buy several 1 gigabit pipes from several top > tier carriers relatively inexpensively. > Or I can buy one fat pipe from one carrier. > > Say I need 4 gigabits of bandwidth and have four 1 gigabit pipes from 4 > carriers running BGP, is there a best way to load balance these? Just AS > pre-pend subsets on each carrier so certain subnets prefer one over another? > Or is there a better way? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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