Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

Fri May 28 17:43:03 UTC 2004

On May 28,  6:34pm, Arnold Nipper <arnold at 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