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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hello Mark,<div><br></div><div>Currently we don't have capacity on our Core for STM64 and however having multiple STM16 also gives us good resilience.</div><div>Our internet capacity is increasing everyday and even though we have plan to upgrade our core routers this year.</div><div>We will still have the issues of dealing with two cable providers but multiple internet peers and having to load balance in this same manner and hence a solution hunt being pursued now.. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Frank<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: Re: [afnog] Internet Traffic distribution management<br>To: rombokite@hotmail.com; afnog@afnog.org<br>From: mark.tinka@seacom.mu<br>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:55:12 +0200<br><br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-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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<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="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.internap.com/network-services/ip-services/miro-controller/" target="_blank">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></div></div> </div></body>
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