Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500

Mon Mar 15 19:19:07 UTC 2004

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Joe Abley wrote:

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| On 12 Mar 2004, at 23:24, joe mcguckin wrote:
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|> Patrick,
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|> I suspect that each FE goes to a different AS...
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| In that case, sample/count outbound traffic volumes by
| (prefix/AS/AS_PATH/something), sort the resulting list, and develop an
| import policy based on the top N entries which shares the traffic by
| tweaking some other attribute to avoid the last-resort tie-break.
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| Or bypass the measurement part, and make wild guesses about where your
| traffic is going, and apply an import policy based on that. Either way,
| lather, rinse, repeat.
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| There might be something relevant in the slot I did in this tutorial in
| Richmond Hill:
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|   http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/te.html
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And products from folks like Proficient Networks and Routescience can
automate the process for you.

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