[afnog] Internet Traffic distribution management

[Mark Tinka]

On 29/Sep/15 09:36, Frank Kuse wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We currently do our Internet traffic load balancing by IP prefix
> preference to our internet peers.
> 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.
>
> The process above and determining the traffic utilization per prefix
> is manual and does not scale as we acquire more internet uplinks.
>
> Is there an automatic way of load balancing internet traffic per IP
> prefix on a number of internet links as our situation is?

Are you talking about things like these:

    http://www.internap.com/network-services/ip-services/miro-controller/

I've never used such a thing (and wouldn't ever), but I suspect you'll
pay top-dollar for this.

>
> As it stands we have 8 uplinks with planning for two additional uplinks.

Why so many upstreams?

Mark.
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