BGP Traffic Engineering question

[Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com>]

Howdy,

If you have several transit providers connected to your network and much of your traffic is generally directed by the 
"BGP tiebreaker" (i.e. lowest IP address) is there a way, without specifying on a per-prefix basis to prefer the "tie 
breaker winner" slightly less often? I don't want to "completely flip" the preference so that it just saturates a 
different link, I am just trying to see if there is any good way to influence the "natural" selection method.

We have 6 transit providers, and Level3 always wins because it is 4/8, normally this isn't a problem because we have 
traffic engineering systems (route science/avaya) which move traffic away from that link, but if we need to reboot the 
RS, or something catastrophic happens we would like it to spread out a little more evenly.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? 

-Drew