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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:31:19 -0800
From:      "Mitch (Bitblock)" <mitch@bitblock.com>
To:        "'Elton Machado'" <elton.machado@norteglobal.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Load Balancing
Message-ID:  <courier.41C3A486.00006540@bigass1.bitblock.com>
In-Reply-To: <41C38165.1020709@norteglobal.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> Totally true and problem get worse when you already have the equipament
> and have to implement a solution over it.
> We are also using a script at this moment but it doesn't do load
> balance. What it only do is to check if the current provide
> are okay, and if not, it change the default route to the other. But it
> think this is not the best solution at all.
> 
> What I basicly need is to have some kind of route protocol at our side
> that checks for the small path and choose it.
> 
> Does it is much harder to implement ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
[Mitch says:] 

Tons - don't think you will ever get there unless you can find some way of
running BGP. You could find some way of load sharing, or even balancing, but
that has little to do with route optimization.

m/




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