We're doing BGP to announce our PI space and make sure that our PI space is reachable through both ISPs in case one link goes down. This is the primary need to do the BGP here. Unfortunately my boss has requested that we make use of the capacity of both links, rather than pref traffic out of the higher capacity link. -----Original Message----- From: Randy McAnally [mailto:rsm@fast-serv.com] Sent: 19 January 2011 14:00 To: Ahmed Yousuf; 'nanog group' Subject: RE: Dual Homed BGP for failover On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:23:47 -0000, Ahmed Yousuf wrote
- Accept that we are never going to get an ideal distribution of traffic and continue monitoring and adjusting local pref/prepends etc. as and when we need to change the distribution of traffic. Hopefully we don't need to do this that often.
^ This. You're fighting a loosing battle with such slow links. Given the limited route capacity of your router you might as well set up statics aimed at each link and forget about BGP shaping. Just keep a floating default pointed at each peer. -Randy