Muhammad, As you mention specific destinations that you seem to own/manage on both ends, wouldn't it make more sense to run some overlay here, with tunnels taking all available paths, and some simple SD-WAN-like routing policies selecting the correct overlay for the relevant traffic?
Tnx Arie On Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 8:03 AM Muhammad Atif Jauhar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Thank you both for your feedback. > > Basically, one subnet is for backup environment and other link is for > normal user traffic toward Data center. > > If we use one link most of the bandwidth captured by backup to avoid any > bandwidth issue and slowness faced by users, we acquired one link for only > backup and replication. > > Now want to segregate traffic on both link to avoid any bandwidth issue. > > Regards, > > Muhammad Atif Jauhar > (+966-5600-04985) > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 17:36 Arie Vayner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Muhammad, >> >> To add to Gert's comment about symmetry... Can you please try and explain >> why you have that requirement? >> >> I think this may be a case of reassessing the requirements before going >> into solution mode. >> >> Tnx, >> Arie >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 5:36 AM Gert Doering via cisco-nsp < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:50:55PM +0300, Muhammad Atif Jauhar via >>> cisco-nsp wrote: >>> > However, for outbound traffic, we are presently relying on Policy-Based >>> > Routing (PBR) to steer traffic via the preferred uplink. While this >>> > approach is functional, we would prefer to achieve the desired path >>> > selection using BGP-native mechanisms, if possible, to ensure better >>> > scalability and operational simplicity. >>> >>> There is none. BGP does not care about packet source addresses. >>> >>> (That said, you could trick around with VRFs, but it's questionable >>> if that will be more satisfactory in the end) >>> >>> Symmetric traffic is an illusion, and trying to achieve that in >>> "the Internet" is time not spent well. >>> >>> gert >>> -- >>> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if >>> you >>> feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never >>> doubted >>> it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." >>> Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh >>> Mistress >>> >>> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/
