RE: [pacnog] Splitting up prefix advertisements

["Alo Anesi" <Alo.Anesi@bluesky.as>]

Hey Bill,

That's actually what we're doing now. We have one main provider in San
Francisco that gives us transit, and we do policy routing to send
traffic in either direction.

Our second provider is mostly a backup and has a massive AS-PATH prepend
to ensure that.

What I was hoping to do was utilize our backup provider more and
hopefully get some more efficiency out of the system.  

Thanks,
Alo


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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody@pch.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:45 AM
To: Alo Anesi
Cc: pacnog@pacnog.org
Subject: Re: [pacnog] Splitting up prefix advertisements

    > I realize the CIDR folks may frown on de-aggregation, but I need
some way to load balance two links of different sizes from 2 different
upstreams.

Yeah, de-aggregation is pretty bad practice...  One thing you can do is
to buy your transit on the mainland, and just use two different
satellite carriers for the backhaul, and do your own internal load
balancing (which can use exactly the same mechanism, but) which won't
make a mess visible to other people, outside your network.  I know of
quite a few folks on the end of satellite links who do this.

                                -Bill