Henning Brauer wrote: > * Alex Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-26 06:11]: .. >> Under just a normal BGP setup, our 100Mb line would be saturated as >> it attempted to send traffic there based on routing distance. >> Because of this, there are IPtables rules that count how many pps >> are going on the 100Mb line, and if there are over a certain amount, >> they mangle the packets and send them over the OC-12 instead. In >> this way, we are able to share these 2 lines of differing bandwidth. > > I would just play with local-preference based on source AS > for a few big > ASes to move them to the OC-12 line and do that until the usage is > somewhat balanced.
Some ISPs also accept custom (no-export) communities to help adjust the inbound traffic. These communities can be used to not export your advertised space to one (or many) of the ISP's upstreams, this will cause the upstream to prefer your other link when sending traffic to you. -Steve S.
