Re: bgp dmzlink-bw verification

From: Nick Griffin (nick.jon.griffin@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 00:29:29 ART


Tim, were you ever to make sense out of this? I just did a similar scenario
and notice the same thing. Anyone have an thoughts/suggestions?

R5#sh ip bgp 100.100.100.0
BGP routing table entry for 100.100.100.0/24, version 15
Paths: (2 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Multipath: eBGP iBGP
  Not advertised to any peer
  900
    192.168.75.7 from 192.168.75.7 (192.168.97.7)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, internal, multipath, best
      DMZ-Link Bw 12 kbytes
  900
    192.168.85.8 from 192.168.85.8 (192.168.98.8)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, internal, multipath
      DMZ-Link Bw 1 kbytes

R5#sh ip route 100.100.100.0
Routing entry for 100.100.100.0/24
  Known via "bgp 1000", distance 200, metric 0
  Tag 900, type internal
  Last update from 192.168.85.8 00:06:08 ago
  Routing Descriptor Blocks:
    192.168.75.7, from 192.168.75.7, 00:06:08 ago
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
      AS Hops 1
  * 192.168.85.8, from 192.168.85.8, 00:06:08 ago
      Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 12
      AS Hops 1

On 10/17/06, Tim Chan <timanji@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to understand the output I'm getting when I configure "bgp
> dmzlink-bw".
> After my configuration is done, I get the following output:
> R2#sho ip bgp 0.0.0.0
> BGP routing table entry for 0.0.0.0/0, version 32
> Paths: (2 available, best #2, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
> Multipath: iBGP
> Flag: 0x800
> Advertised to non peer-group peers:
> 145.1.245.5
> 100,
> (Received from a RR-client)
> 145.1.245.5 from 145.1.245.5 (150.1.5.5)
> Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, internal, multipath
> DMZ-Link
> Bw 1 kbytes
> 100, (Received from a RR-client)
> 145.1.245.4 from
> 145.1.245.4 (150.1.4.4)
> Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid,
> internal, multipath, best
> DMZ-Link Bw 1250 kbytes
>
> You can see that the
> route to R5 is 1kbps and R4 is 1250kbps.
>
> So when I do a "show ip route", I
> get the following:
> R2#sho ip route 0.0.0.0
> Routing entry for 0.0.0.0/0,
> supernet
> Known via "bgp 200", distance 200, metric 0, candidate default path
> Tag 100, type internal
> Last update from 145.1.245.4 00:00:28 ago
> Routing
> Descriptor Blocks:
> * 145.1.245.5, from 145.1.245.5, 00:00:28 ago
> Route
> metric is 0, traffic share count is 10
> AS Hops 1
> 145.1.245.4, from
> 145.1.245.4, 00:00:28 ago
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
> AS Hops 1
>
> Note that I'm getting a traffic share count of 10:1. Which looks
> good, BUT, the 10 is
> towards the slower link, not the faster one. So normally
> I would read this as, "For every
> 10 packets sent to R5, send 1 packet to R4."
> But this makes no sense!
>
> In looking at the doccd, the output in the examples
> follows what makes sense. The faster
> links get the larger ratios.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t
> /122t2/ftbgplb.htm#wp1052316
>
> This is from IE Vol2 Lab 6, task 4.9. And even
> their verification output shows the same
> 10:1 favor over the slower link. Are
> these outputs correct and I'm just reading it wrong?
> (But then the doccd shows
> otherwise)
>
> Please advise...
> -Tim
>
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