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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hello Phil,<div><br></div><div>Answers as below.</div><div><br><br><div>> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:57:41 +0200<br>> From: regnauld@nsrc.org<br>> To: rombokite@hotmail.com<br>> CC: afnog@afnog.org<br>> Subject: Re: [afnog] Internet Traffic distribution management<br>> <br>> Frank Kuse (rombokite) writes:<br>> > Hello All,<br>> > 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.<br>> > The process above and determining the traffic utilization per prefix is manual and does not scale as we acquire more internet uplinks.<br>> > Is there an automatic way of load balancing internet traffic per IP prefix on a number of internet links as our situation is?<br>> > As it stands we have 8 uplinks with planning for two additional uplinks.<br>> <br>> 8 seems excessive - are you doing BGP with all of them ? Is that 8<br>> different providers ?</div><div><br></div><div>Yes we do BGP with all of them and but one provider handles about a maximum of 3 links grouping.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>> <br>> Or are you doing, say, 4 upstream providers with 2 links to each<br>> (failover) ?<br>> </div><div>We have a maxium of 3 links to a one such provider with the remaining handling two on the average </div><div>yes, we fail-over for redundancy purposes </div><div><br></div><div>> > Any pointers on some good technical solution to make this a less pain is most welcome?<br>> <br>> Short of disaggregating and announcing smaller pieces of your prefix<br>> to your upstream, I don't think so. Other solutions are usually technical<br>> hacks like MLVPN or only work for downstream traffic.<br>> <br>> Anyway, there are more qualified folks on this list to give better<br>> suggestions :)<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Phil<br></div></div> </div></body>
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