Re: Aggregating channels...

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsdtech@bsws.de>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:43:19AM -0000, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Getting consumer broadband operators to provide BGP + the overhead of IP
> assignment and AS assingment means that implementing BGP for this is
> 'difficult'. 

Absolutely; though a "real" AS is not really needed; one could use private
ASses.

> I know this sounds arrogant, but if you haven't done BGP, then don't start
> with this kind of scenario.

Absolutely true; BGP adds a massive overhead, and one should really
understand BGP before even thinking about running that in production
scenarios. And for the task of simple load balancing it is just overkill.

Aside from that, if one _really_ needs BGP OpenBSD + Zebra gives a wonderful
router.

Greetz

Henning

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