Re: BGP maximum paths

From: WorkerBee (ciscobee@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 01:45:57 ART


There are infact 3 of them:

   maximum-paths (default to ebgp)
   maximum-paths ibgp (for ibgp)
   maximum-paths eibgp (for both ibgp and ebgp)

On 9/12/06, Michael Zuo <mzuo@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> I have a stupid question:
>
> What is the difference between "maximum-paths" and "maximumn-paths
> ibgp"?
>
> I know the first one is protocol independent, other than that, are they
> equivalent?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Ivan
> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:42 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com; 2nd CCIE
> Subject: Re: BGP maximum paths
>
> This command was integrated in IOS 12.2(28)SB
>
> check thik link:
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios124/124tcr/t
> irp_r/rtebght2.htm#wp1111400
>
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:46, 2nd CCIE wrote:
> > Hi Folks ;
> > I know this has been for discussion recently ..but im not able to
> reach
> > the solution from the archive ..so here we go --------R2 -------|
> > R1------| R4
> > -----------R3------|
> >
> > R1,R2,R3 are on same AS 10 , R4 on AS 20
> >
> > R4 advertises the lo1 netw (10.1.1.1/24) to both R2 and R3 via ebgp
> >
> > R2 and R3 send the network to R1 via ibgp
> >
> > what i want to achieve is that R1 load balance the traffic to R4
> across
> > both R2 and R3
> >
> >
> > I can see the network 10.1.1.1 on the bgp table twice , however on
> the
> > routing table is shows only from R2 .
> >
> > I am using maximum paths 2 on R1 , but i do not have maximum-paths
> ibgp
> > at all under the bgp process (version 12.2(27))
> >
> >
> > any ideas ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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