At 11:56 AM 9/18/98 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: On a slightly related matter, does anyone know how to load balance non-parallel links to a BGP peer? Thanks, Hank

In article <19980918095708.B10051@skriver.dk> you write:

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How would you loadshare over many (>6) parallel E1 links. Currently we do it by connecting them directly to the Cisco's in each end, and do CEF based per-packet loadsharing, it works fine, but support a max of 6 E1's ...

Cisco has a nice white paper on this: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/733/adap/multi/althb_wp.htm

I think Multilink PPP may be your answer, as it goes up to 8 links. There is a CPU hit though, I've never tried Multilink on a high speed interface so I don't know how bad it might affect the router.

-- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@dimension.net Network Engineer (CCIE #3440) - Dimension Enterprises 1-703-709-7500, fax, 1-703-709-7699