So if you use ECMP and traffic equally is divided up to go out both connections, is it guaranteed to come back equally or is it always going to favor coming back in on one over the other due to hop counts likely being lower on one vs the other?
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > hehe.. yup agree 110% .. works well ;) > > No BGP, then use ECMP static routes if needed …. wouldn’t do it by subnet > - why make it more complicated than it needs to be … > > > On Nov 28, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Dennis Burgess <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This this one circuit from multiple upstreams? If so, BGP, is this two > 1gig circuits from the same upstream? If so, BGP. Let me think, when in > doubt BGP. J > > Dennis Burgess > www.linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 x103 – [email protected] > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *CBB - Jay Fuller > *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2016 4:59 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Load Balance Dual GigE Circuits > > > I would route by subnet. Send some traffic out each upstream. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2016 4:47 PM > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Load Balance Dual GigE Circuits > > On 11/28/16 14:36, Matt wrote: > > If you receive two GigE Internet circuits from your upstream how do > > you load balance them to work as a 2 Gigabit Internet circuit? They > > use Juniper and we use Mikrotik. > > > > Just wandering what we do after we out grow our single GigE at this > location. > > > > > Load balancing is barf. Try to get a 10G port first. If I was stuck with > Nx1G I'd aim for BGP multipath load sharing. > > ~Seth > > >
