[135269] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Dual Homed BGP for failover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy McAnally)
Wed Jan 19 09:02:33 2011
From: "Randy McAnally" <rsm@fast-serv.com>
To: "Ahmed Yousuf" <ayousuf0079@gmail.com>,"'nanog group'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:00:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: <007301cbb7c2$f5a63500$e0f29f00$@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:23:47 -0000, Ahmed Yousuf wrote
> - Accept that we are never going to get an ideal
> distribution of traffic and continue monitoring and adjusting local
> pref/prepends etc. as and when we need to change the distribution of
> traffic. Hopefully we don't need to do this that often.
^ This. You're fighting a loosing battle with such slow links. Given the
limited route capacity of your router you might as well set up statics aimed
at each link and forget about BGP shaping. Just keep a floating default
pointed at each peer.
-Randy
