[70849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Fri May 28 13:43:49 2004
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@networksignature.com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:43:03 +0100
In-Reply-To: <40B76A2C.4060205@nipper.de>
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On May 28, 6:34pm, Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
> Wouldn't Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) solve this?
In some, or maybe even many, cases, yes, mostly, but what people really
want is an AS-wide solution, covering any number of boxes, and preferably
not depending on a pseudo-random selection between multiple paths.
In particular, balancing outbound towards two or more different transits,
one would want a more carefully configured and policed balancing act,
not a "whatever hits some cache first and stays there for a while" choice.
Best,
-- Per
