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> He'll be okie. It's just a little difficult for BGP to "load balance" > outbound bits when the bulk of the Internet these days is 2 AS hops > away from each of four upstreams. Not impossible, but it doesn't > happen by default either. I used to do this ages ago, I did it by setting MEDs on the incoming BGP prefixes, in my route-maps I arbitrarily gave some nets (/8s or smaller) lower med on one feed and higher on the others to influence path selection. I shy away from anything but the gentlest of tweaks so I personally wouldnt mess with as-path, localpref, weight etc Steve
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