Not sure what’s hard about the load balancing? We do it all the time with 1G/10G/100G paths using BGP within our core and to customers…. maybe I’m missing something from the discussion….?
Thanks, Paul > On Dec 14, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > In my opinion anytime you need more than 1gbps just order a 10gig circuit and > purchase 1 or 2 gig burstable. > > The only time you wouldn't do this is if you want path diversity. But it > sounds like you are looking for capacity not diversity. > > Bonding 1gig circuits is not like bonding T-1s. Also with seperate 1gig > circuits it's hard to load balance because it's harder to instruct the > traffic coming to your network to use circuit or the other. You can control > how traffic leaves your network but you can't really control how it gets to > you. (There are ways to trick bgp yes but why bother, just get a burstable > 10gig and move on) > > 2 cents > > -Sean > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:02 AM Matt <[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 > > > > 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. >
