Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500

Patrick W.Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Sat Mar 13 04:31:24 UTC 2004


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




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