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Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse () networksignature com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:43:03 +0100
On May 28, 6:34pm, Arnold Nipper <arnold () 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
Current thread:
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?, (continued)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Per Gregers Bilse (May 27)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Bruce Pinsky (May 28)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Per Gregers Bilse (May 28)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Andrew - Supernews (May 28)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Sam Stickland (May 29)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Olivier Bonaventure (May 29)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Alexei Roudnev (May 29)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Bruce Pinsky (May 28)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Per Gregers Bilse (May 27)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Per Gregers Bilse (May 28)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Arnold Nipper (May 28)
- Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization? Per Gregers Bilse (May 28)