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Use the loopback address on each of the two routers as the bgp origination address and make sure that your router has a route for the loopback address of the far router going over both of the GigE links. Ciscos handle this fine. Others can as well. YMMV. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: dan <[email protected]> Date: Monday, May 7, 2007 10:09 am Subject: Load balancing To: [email protected] > Hello, > I currently have 2 routers with a single gigabit link (and > correspondinginternal BGP session) between them. > router1 <---------gigabit------->router2 > > Simple setup. Now that we have reached the limit on this gigabit > link, we > are adding a second gigabit link between the same 2 routers, and we > wish to > load balance across them. Traffic is about 5:1 ratio of out:in. > router2 has > bgp sessions with several upstreams, and router 1 has bgp sessions > withfurther internal routers. What is the best way to balance > across these 2 > links? > > --- > dan >
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