T1 load balancing was traditionally per packet, which caused a lot of challenges yes… more modern load balancing is done on “per flow”
> On Dec 14, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Matt <[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 > > So if we have two BGP sessions at this location with them over two > GigE pipes the traffic should balance across both of them? They say > its more cost effective for multiple GigE circuits until you reach ~4 > rather then a fractional 10G. > > I remember years back load balancing T1 circuits. VOIP hated out of > order packets. Switching to MLPPP made life better there. > >>> 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.
