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Cumulative DMZ Link Bandwidth and load-balancing
draft-mohanty-bess-ebgp-dmz-03

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Satya Mohanty , Arie Vayner , Akshay Gattani , Ajay Kini
Last updated 2021-09-16 (Latest revision 2021-03-15)
Replaced by draft-ietf-bess-ebgp-dmz
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Abstract

The DMZ Link Bandwidth draft provides a way to load-balance traffic to a destination (which is in a different AS than the source) which is reachable via more than one path. Typically, the link bandwidth (either configured on the link of the EBGP egress interface or set via a policy) is encoded in an extended community and then sent to the IBGP peer which employs multi-path. The link-bandwidth value is then extracted from the path extended community and is used as a weight in the FIB, which does the load-balancing. This draft extends the usage of the DMZ link bandwidth to another setting where the ingress BGP speaker requires knowledge of the cumulative bandwidth while doing the load-balancing. The draft also proposes neighbor- level knobs to enable the link bandwidth extended community to be regenerated and then advertised to EBGP peers to override the default behavior of not advertising optional non-transitive attributes to EBGP peers.

Authors

Satya Mohanty
Arie Vayner
Akshay Gattani
Ajay Kini

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