Re: BGP

Obviously, Marko can respond to the questions directed at him but basically:

1) Changing the bandwidth on an interface via the bandwidth command will not
change the speed of the link. Not sure if that is what you mean by the
"bandwidth" of the link. The bandwidth set on an interface generally
effects routing protocol calculations and QoS and in this case BGP unequal
cost load-balancing

2) For this feature to work, the weight, local-pref, as-path, origin, and
MED must already be equal

3) Correct on the maximum-paths command...there is also a maximum-paths
eibgp just to be obnoxious on Cisco's part : )

HTH

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Raghav Bhargava <
raghavbhargava12_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Marko,
>
> The reason why i asked about load balancing was that if suppose i have 2
> equal paths to the same AS and i use this bgp dmz-link bw feature , then
> the
> bandwidth that i configure under the physical interface is only a attribute
> which i can use to do load balancing. Will it impact the actual bandwidth
> of
> the link. Sorry but i have not tried this in lab at the moment but will
> definitely try it. Also if we use this feature in a live network that means
> i cannot use any other attribute in the same AS to modify the path for
> example Local pref because to use this feature all the path selection
> attribute should be default.Please correct me if i am wrong here.
>
> I was just trying to create different scenarios where if i use other BGP
> attributes for path selection will this feature create a issue.
>
> As far as load sharing is concerned, please correct me here that for ebgp
> links the cli is maximum-paths x and for ibgp links is maximum-path ibgp x.
>
> Thats all i know people. not much as you all but trying to learn a little
> day by day. Once again thanks everyone for your valuable input.
>
> -Raghav
>
>
>
> --
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