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
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> 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?
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