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BGP per-flow load balancing between eBGP and iBGP learned prefix
From: Andy Litzinger <andy.litzinger.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:33:38 -0700
Hello, I have a Load Balancer that uses a default route to a VRRP IP hosted between two Juniper MX80 routers. Each MX router has a single BGP feed from the same provider and each session is currently receiving only a default route. I'd like to load balance my outbound traffic across the two links. More specifically I want to balance traffic to a particular prefix across the two links so even if i was receiving full routes trying to manually split prefixes to a second upstream VRRP instance wouldn't help. I believe the typical way to do this would be to run an IGP between the LB and the MX's so that each MX advertises a default route to the LB and let ECMP take care of it. I'm not averse to this long term, but I have a short term need and the LB requires a license to participate in an IGP. Is there another way? I should note that the LB will not let me enter multiple default or identical static routes so I can't try spinning up a second VRRP session and adding a second default route on the LB to it. Is it possible to let BGP do the load balancing? From what I can tell this would be trivial if both of the provider links were terminated on the same router via a few multipath config lines but because they are on different routers I seem to be running into the "eBGP > iBGP" Path selection criteria which prevents the routes from being equal. I appreciate any ideas! regards, -andy
Current thread:
- BGP per-flow load balancing between eBGP and iBGP learned prefix Andy Litzinger (Sep 18)
- Re: BGP per-flow load balancing between eBGP and iBGP learned prefix Roland Dobbins (Sep 18)
- Re: BGP per-flow load balancing between eBGP and iBGP learned prefix Christopher Morrow (Sep 18)
- Re: BGP per-flow load balancing between eBGP and iBGP learned prefix Baldur Norddahl (Sep 19)
- Re: BGP per-flow load balancing between eBGP and iBGP learned prefix Roland Dobbins (Sep 18)
