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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/Sep/15 09:36, Frank Kuse wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello All,
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">We currently do our Internet traffic load
balancing by IP prefix preference to our internet peers.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">The AS for the same prefix is prepended a number
of times on other links to serve as backup with the less
preferred link given the highest number of prepend.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">The process above and determining the traffic
utilization per prefix is manual and does not scale as we
acquire more internet uplinks.</div>
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sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255,
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">Is there an automatic way of load balancing
internet traffic per IP prefix on a number of internet links
as our situation is?</div>
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Are you talking about things like these:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.internap.com/network-services/ip-services/miro-controller/">http://www.internap.com/network-services/ip-services/miro-controller/</a><br>
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I've never used such a thing (and wouldn't ever), but I suspect
you'll pay top-dollar for this.<br>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">As it stands we have 8 uplinks with planning for
two additional uplinks.</div>
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Why so many upstreams?<br>
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Mark.<br>
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