Load balancing

Jo Rhett jrhett at svcolo.com
Mon May 7 17:56:36 UTC 2007


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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