Here is a quicky .. I have 2 neighbors, and I want to change to weights on each one to have a bit more control on outbound traffic. The default weight is 32,768, and can be a number 1 - 65,535 .. What would be a good way to calculate what weight I want on each one when say I want around 65% going out one neighbor and 35% going out the other? ------------------------------------- -- - - glenn http://www.dallaslamers.org "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" #define WHO 1 int main(void) { printf("%d r0x0rs!!!\n", WHO); }
It always uses the route with the higher weight, it's not proportional. The only way to get proportional load sharing with BGP is to partition the routes you learn based on how much traffic goes to each prefix, and then make one path preferred for the prefixes with 65% of the traffic and the other path preferred for the remainder. This is likely to be *very* difficult.
Chainging weights are in 99% of the cases *NOT* what you want to do, as it's local to that router, if you have other routers running BGP, or if you ever will, local preference is what you want to change - but both weight and local pref is like a sledge hammer, often you only want to influence the path decisition, so often one use AS path prepending. /Jesper
The only way to get proportional load sharing with BGP is to partition the Is there another method you could recomend? ------------------------------------- -- - - glenn http://www.dallaslamers.org "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" #define WHO 1 int main(void) { printf("%d r0x0rs!!!\n", WHO); }
Cisco introduces a new feature called BGP link-bandwidth with which you can do uneaqual cost load sharing. Take the following commands for reference: 1. enable 2. configure {terminal | memory | network} 3. router bgp [as-number] 4. address-family ipv4 5. neighbor ip-address dmzlink-bw
