[96388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Load balancing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Mon May 7 13:59:42 2007
In-Reply-To: <3fe76440705071005s956334g4356595dff71c28c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:56:36 -0700
To: dan <deearekay@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Read your fine, fine manuals? Every vendor of relevance has a
chapter devoted to this topic.
On May 7, 2007, at 10:05 AM, dan wrote:
> I currently have 2 routers with a single gigabit link (and
> corresponding internal BGP session) between them.
> router1 <---------gigabit------->router2
>
> Simple setup. Now that we have reached the limit on this gigabit
> link, we are adding a second gigabit link between the same 2
> routers, and we wish to load balance across them. Traffic is about
> 5:1 ratio of out:in. router2 has bgp sessions with several
> upstreams, and router 1 has bgp sessions with further internal
> routers. What is the best way to balance across these 2 links?
>
> ---
> dan
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