[96404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Load balancing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Antoniell)
Tue May 8 08:05:59 2007
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:04:03 -0300 (UYT)
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Antoniello?= <nicolas@antel.net.uy>
Reply-To: nantoniello@antel.net.uy
To: Bruce Pinsky <bep@whack.org>
Cc: dan <deearekay@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <463FB146.60401@whack.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
If you choose etherchannel, also spend some minutes reading about the
balancing algorithm for your platform.
:)
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Bruce Pinsky wrote:
bep >
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bep >dan wrote:
bep >> Hello,
bep >> I currently have 2 routers with a single gigabit link (and corresponding
bep >> internal BGP session) between them.
bep >> router1 <---------gigabit------->router2
bep >>
bep >> Simple setup. Now that we have reached the limit on this gigabit link,
bep >> we are adding a second gigabit link between the same 2 routers, and we
bep >> wish to load balance across them. Traffic is about 5:1 ratio of out:in.
bep >> router2 has bgp sessions with several upstreams, and router 1 has bgp
bep >> sessions with further internal routers. What is the best way to balance
bep >> across these 2 links?
bep >>
bep >
bep >Depending on the platforms, etherchannel/port-channel would be a fairly
bep >straightforward solution.
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