Good question .. coming back is purely the upstream configuration … if they are doing it well then it will be pretty evenly distributed on a “per flow” basis … not as balanced as LAG for example but typically pretty close …
Hop counts shouldn’t come into play at all Thanks, Paul > On Nov 28, 2016, at 9:12 PM, Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > > So if you use ECMP and traffic equally is divided up to go out both > connections, is it guaranteed to come back equally or is it always going to > favor coming back in on one over the other due to hop counts likely being > lower on one vs the other? > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > hehe.. yup agree 110% .. works well ;) > > No BGP, then use ECMP static routes if needed …. wouldn’t do it by subnet - > why make it more complicated than it needs to be … > > >> On Nov 28, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Dennis Burgess <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> This this one circuit from multiple upstreams? If so, BGP, is this two 1gig >> circuits from the same upstream? If so, BGP. Let me think, when in doubt >> BGP. J >> >> Dennis Burgess >> www.linktechs.net <http://www.linktechs.net/> – 314-735-0270 x103 >> <tel:314-735-0270%20x103> – [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On >> Behalf Of CBB - Jay Fuller >> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 4:59 PM >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Load Balance Dual GigE Circuits >> >> >> I would route by subnet. Send some traffic out each upstream. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Seth Mattinen <mailto:[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 4:47 PM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Load Balance Dual GigE Circuits >> >> On 11/28/16 14:36, Matt wrote: >> > If you receive two GigE Internet circuits from your upstream how do >> > you load balance them to work as a 2 Gigabit Internet circuit? They >> > use Juniper and we use Mikrotik. >> > >> > Just wandering what we do after we out grow our single GigE at this >> > location. >> > >> >> >> Load balancing is barf. Try to get a 10G port first. If I was stuck with >> Nx1G I'd aim for BGP multipath load sharing. >> >> ~Seth > >
