BGP multipath

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Fri Jul 28 11:31:00 CEST 2017


On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:26:59AM +0200, Piotrek S. wrote:
> 2017-07-20 9:54 GMT+02:00 ? Barrett <andreabarrett at live.it>:
> 
> > Hi, how can I  encode multipath next hops with BGP?
> >
> Hint: merge paths
> 
> Is it possible other way?
> 

Not really. BGP does not really support multipath on the wire. You can
send multiple paths using ADD-PATH extension and then use merge paths on
the receiver side.

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