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RE: (ASCEND) Load balancing with GRF
Our situation is that we are conncected (through T1 converters on the HSSI
ports) via 2 T1's to Sprint and another T1 to MCI. Sprint can handle the
load balancing on their end for their two T1's, but the problem comes
balancing our load between Sprint and MCI. So far the solution has been to
set preferences and manually balance between the two.
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Brian Krabach
Vice President Engineering
GlassCity Internet, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Walden [mailto:andy@enigma.mtco.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 1998 11:46 AM
> To: Brian Krabach
> Cc: ascend-users@bungi.com
> Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Load balancing with GRF
>
>
> Looks like we are advertising half our routes up one and half up the
> other. I'm not very versed in BGP, but it was explained like this: They
> are doing a packet by packet load balancing on their end and we are doing
> more of a streaming load balance for upstream. She said there were
> arguements for doing it either way (cisco proprietary protocol is the
> other way) and since most of our traffic is coming in, their box would
> really be doing most of the load balancing, which made sense to me.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andy Walden
> System Administrator
> MTCO Communications
> 1-800-859-6826
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Brian Krabach wrote:
>
> > Andy,
> >
> > We discussed this same problem with the GRF people at Ascend
> who stated that
> > the GRF does *not* support load balancing, but that route
> preferences could
> > be set up. We were also under the understanding that the GRF
> would perform
> > load balancing when we purchased the unit as well. If you do
> find any info
> > on making it work, please cc me a copy.
>
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