Re: BGP peering, 2 peers, hardware reqirements & questions

[Darrin Chandler <dwchandler_(_at_)_stilyagin_(_dot_)_com>]

You might also want to read 
http://www.inetdaemon.com/columns/ask/internet-load-balancing.shtml, 
which will try to talk you out of using BGP for load balancing and 
present a simpler alternative.

j knight wrote:

>--- Quoting Karl O. Pinc on 2005/09/13 at 01:05 +0000:
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>>Finally, not knowing much about bgp, I've a question
>>about load balancing over the two WAN links.  Does
>>bgp/OpenBGP have any provisions for load balancing, say
>>based on WAN link latency?  (Seems like this _could_
>>be a "bgp policy" at the local level, but nothing
>>leaps out at me from bgpd.conf(5).)
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>Highly recommend this book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/
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>.joel