Re: Load Balancing for Incoming Traffic

From: Ron Royston (ccie6824@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 12:55:46 GMT-3


   
Yea, that makes sense, but MED doesn't get forwarded past your ISPs AS. It
won't work for load sharing in this guys senario.

>From: "John Kim" <albugkim@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "John Kim" <albugkim@hotmail.com>
>To: ccie2001ca@yahoo.ca, ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: Load Balancing for Incoming Traffic
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:12:37 -0400
>
>As the following configs,route-maps with MED for two gateway routers can do
>the load balancing. And bgp always-compare-med should be applied on the
>both
>gateways.
>
>on gateway 1
> router bgp 1
> neigh a.a.a.a router-map b1ao out
> bgp always-compare-med
> route-map b1ao permit 10
> match ip add 1
> set metric 100
> route-map b1ao permit 20
> set metric 150
>on gateway 2
> router bgp 1
> neigh b.b.b.b route-map b1bo out
> bgp always-compare-med
> route-map b1bo permit 10
> match ip add 2
> set metric 100
> route-map b1bo permit 20
> set metric 150
>
>Thanks,
>John Kim
>
>
>>From: CCIE Candidate <ccie2001ca@yahoo.ca>
>>Reply-To: CCIE Candidate <ccie2001ca@yahoo.ca>
>>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>Subject: Load Balancing for Incoming Traffic
>>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:48:42 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>>Hi everyone:
>>
>>One of my customer is using two different circuits to
>>reach two different Internet gateways. I am doing load
>>balancing for outgoing traffic by using MHSRP. Now my
>>customer wants to do load-balancing for incoming
>>traffic as well. The only way I can think of is
>>advertising half of customer's IP block from one
>>internet gateway and the other half block from the
>>second internet gateway (full block will still be
>>advertised from both gateways, but advertising half
>>block will be more specific, therefore will be
>>preferred). But I dont think this is a good way to do
>>it, is there any other feasible method to do it ?
>>
>>I am running OSPF with customer's routers and then
>>redistributing it into BGP at my internet gateway, but
>>I can also run BGP with customer's routers using
>>private AS numbers at customer's end.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>KJ
>>
>>



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