I love these "how to load balance using BGP" threads. Everyone who wants to "load balance across the internet" should be aware that you may be creating a situation where you are hurting your performance. Lets say that you have two AS Paths that are the same length. How do you know how many hops there are along each of those AS Paths? Maybe one path crosses 37 routers and the other one only crosses 3. Think that might have potential issues?
Just because you want to do it, just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should do it. As someone wiser than I likes to ask: "what problem are you trying to solve?" ""jeff sicuranza"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Yes it does if you are doing EBGP and your router has two or more directly > conneted links to your EBGP peer. The the default load balancing will work > if static routes or an IGP is used for your subnets linking your neighbors. > You see it is not BGP performing the load balancing but the normal behavior > of load balancing across equal cost paths (if exists) regardless if you are > using static or IGP routes.. EBGP multihop also does this however, you are > still using the behavior of the static and IGP routes for equal cost paths > but do not need to have your neighbors directly connected... Lab it you will > see... Have fun.... Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=44785&t=44697 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
