[AusNOG] Inbound BGP traffic balancing

[Tim Raphael]

Hey Matt,

Another option is to split your advertisements, if you have a /23, advertise two /24s out separate connections and also the /23 incase a peer breaks.
I’m not sure if that’s what you meant by “smaller prefixes” but it’s another way.

I’ve never done this before in prod but it’s a fairly usual occurrence for enterprises with a smaller number of IPs and destinations.


- Tim 


> On 27 Feb 2017, at 3:27 pm, Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Your best option is to AS-PATH-PREPEND the better of the two carriers until you get a good balance, adding one AS hop to the outbound announcement is usually enough to make a fair difference but there is no way to ensure 50/50, it's just not going to happen especially if one of your upstream's is a carrier like Vocus who are well peered across the world.
> 
> Kindest Regards,
> Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
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> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Matt Selbst <matt.j.selbst at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [AusNOG] Inbound BGP traffic balancing
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> Hi All,
> 
> I've currently got transit from two of the major carriers and it seems that if I don't do any manipulation BGP naturally makes about 90% of the traffic come through the one carrier and only ~10% through the other.
> 
> I've tried all the usual tricks like shorter prefixes, communities etc but not really getting much that I can rely on for even split.
> 
> Is there a much more reliable way of evenly balancing inbound traffic 50/50?  I'm open to commercial solutions if one exists.
> 
> 
> -Matt
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