Hi, Agree with Jay, AS path prepending is one good option to influence inbound traffic to load balance. Though you have to be precise with how many AS you are prepending to exactly load balance. But I have seen in web hosting environment that it sometime causes website user with problem of page not loading properly.
These things need to be planned,and slowly implemented. Regards, Jawwad Paracha IBM On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jay Hennigan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/21/10 9:53 PM, Chris Gotstein wrote: > > It's actually both, but i'm mostly concerned with inbound traffic. > > Inbound is trickier than out ound. Many carriers offer a list of BGP > communities which can be used to influence how they treat your > advertisements, either by manipulating local preference, prepending, or > both. > > Many are listed here: > > http://onesc.net/communities/ > > but ask your upstreams to be sure. > > Make small changes slowly. Verify with external looking-glass sites to > ensure that you're getting the results you want. > > > -- > Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - [email protected] > Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ > Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
