[68494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W.Gilmore)
Fri Mar 12 23:32:47 2004
In-Reply-To: <BC77CD01.59E7A%joe@via.net>
Cc: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:31:24 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mar 12, 2004, at 11:24 PM, joe mcguckin wrote:
> I suspect that each FE goes to a different AS...
Yeppers.
We've been corresponding privately, and you got it right (unlike me).
He'll be okie. It's just a little difficult for BGP to "load balance"
outbound bits when the bulk of the Internet these days is 2 AS hops
away from each of four upstreams. Not impossible, but it doesn't
happen by default either.
--
TTFN,
patrick
