RE: bgp load balancing

From: Nelson Salvatorelli (nsalvato@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 22:27:27 GMT-3


   
Hi,

Not only you have to configure 'bgp bestpath as-path ignore' but also
'maximum-paths 2'. The latter if used in iBGP, will only be available
from 12.2S. 12.2S is not out yet. In your case should work since it is
eBGP... And multipath support is available for eBGP since 11.3 If I
remember correctly.

It's worth a try in the lab... I guess if you adjust the metrics
accordingly (to make them all equal) and ignore the AS_PATH attr, then
it should work nicely...

Good question!
Cheers,

-nelson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ying chang [mailto:ying_c@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 25 March 2002 00:52
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: bgp load balancing
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, "bgp bestpath as-path ignore" is not available on my
> routers (IOS
> 12.1.11, 12.1.12, 12.0.20) even Cisco's CDROM said it was
> introduced in
> 12.0. So, is it still possible to use the direct link along
> with a transit
> AS to do load balancing?
>
> Thanks,
> Chang
>
>
> >From: "ying chang" <ying_c@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: "ying chang" <ying_c@hotmail.com>
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Subject: bgp load balancing
> >Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:23:14 -0500
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Can we load balancing R1 and R2 traffic using both R1-R2 and R1-R3-R2
> >links?
> >My thought is if we ignore as-path then R1-R3-R2 path should
> be as good as
> >R1-R2 path, but I'm not 100% sure.
> >
> > R1 (AS1, net 1.0.0.0)
> > / \
> > / \
> > / \
> > R2-----R3 (AS3, net 3.0.0.0)
> > (AS2, net 2.0.0.0)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chang
> >
> >



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