From: Peter Van Oene (petvan@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 18:19:35 GMT-3
Doing so will create tremendous out of order packet delivery, assuming
you split flows. I'd suggest that you really don't want to do this.
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:58:42 -0500, Brian McGahan
<bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> > As well, wouldn't CEF be responsible for the per-packet balancing, not
> BGP
> > per se? I am not sure of that, but I would think that the switching
> engine
> > would be more in charge than the routing protocol.
>
> It's BGP job to install the route (or routes) in the routing
> table. The actual load balancing is done through the switching process
> such as CEF, fast switching, etc.
>
>
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Devane [mailto:jim@powerpulse.cc]
> > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:53 PM
> > To: Brian McGahan; 'libone mhlanga'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: BGP Gurus out there !!
> >
> > Hmm,
> >
> > But I believe the original question is to load-balance to two
> different
> > AS's... which is not possible right now. ( I can't have 701 and 1239
> > hooked
> > to my router and load balance to some AS they are both connected to )
> >
> > It would be great to have this in practice. But BGP is really set on
> > making
> > one single best choice for the route.
> >
> > As well, wouldn't CEF be responsible for the per-packet balancing, not
> BGP
> > per se? I am not sure of that, but I would think that the switching
> engine
> > would be more in charge than the routing protocol.
> >
> > My .02
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Brian McGahan
> > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:28 AM
> > To: libone mhlanga; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: BGP Gurus out there !!
> >
> > Li,
> >
> > Yes you can do this. In order to do this issue the
> > "maximum-paths" command under the BGP process. Note that the best
> path
> > selection must match for all the attributes up to the IGP metric.
> >
> > For more info see:
> > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/459/25.shtml
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> > Of
> > > libone mhlanga
> > > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:17 AM
> > > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > > Subject: BGP Gurus out there !!
> > >
> > > Is it possible for BGP to do per-packet load-balancing to two
> > different AS
> > > numbers ? Put another way does BGP now have the ability to install
> > two
> > > routes in the routing table to the same prefix without preferring
> one
> > over
> > > the other ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Li
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