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RE: Dual Homed BGP for failover


From: "Randy McAnally" <rsm () fast-serv com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:00:28 -0500

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


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