The people with enable on the routers at AS7018 most certainly do know what 802.3ad is, whether their billing system and setup in your particular geographic region will allow you to do that with two 1GbE handoffs is an entirely other question.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > That would be the issue. Do AT&T other LEC's support "802.3ad LACP > (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)"? That would make things so much > easier. > > > > The problem in most instances outside of a co-lo/IX is the LEC. Around > here, > > AT&T won't deliver a 10G hand-off until you're committed to 4Gb/s. And a > > 10Gb port is like $7k minimum. > > > > On 12/14/2016 2:09 PM, Sean Heskett wrote: > > > > In my opinion anytime you need more than 1gbps just order a 10gig circuit > > and purchase 1 or 2 gig burstable. > > > > The only time you wouldn't do this is if you want path diversity. But it > > sounds like you are looking for capacity not diversity. > > > > Bonding 1gig circuits is not like bonding T-1s. Also with seperate 1gig > > circuits it's hard to load balance because it's harder to instruct the > > traffic coming to your network to use circuit or the other. You can > control > > how traffic leaves your network but you can't really control how it gets > to > > you. (There are ways to trick bgp yes but why bother, just get a > burstable > > 10gig and move on) > > > > 2 cents > > > > -Sean > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:02 AM Matt <[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 > >> > >> > >> > >> So if we have two BGP sessions at this location with them over two > >> > >> GigE pipes the traffic should balance across both of them? They say > >> > >> its more cost effective for multiple GigE circuits until you reach ~4 > >> > >> rather then a fractional 10G. > >> > >> > >> > >> I remember years back load balancing T1 circuits. VOIP hated out of > >> > >> order packets. Switching to MLPPP made life better there. > >> > >> > >> > >> >> 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. > >> > > >
