Re: draft-ietf-multi6-multihoming-requirements-06.txt

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@yahoo.com>]

Preferably there would be a way to automatically load balance though. 
:-)  (or at least it would be easy to set up even for a naïve user.)

simon

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 08:21  AM, Vijay Gill wrote:

> The load balancing does not have to be automagically done. For example,
> with the current mechanisms available to us in v4 + BGP, a large 
> promising
> local dialup provider used to make extensive use of selective
> announcements, local preference, selective prepends etc to ensure that 
> the
> traffic to its various transit providers was evenly balanced since 
> most of
> the billing was done on the higher on in+out and so effectively there 
> was
> the opportunity to optimize cost by moving someone's higher outbound to
> another provider who had a high inbound.
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