I'm a network administrator for an ISP. We are a dual homed BGP shop. We have, in general around 250 Mbps of traffic on each link (2 7206-G2 routers). The problem is, when one link goes down the traffic wouldn't rebalance correctly. We'd end up with about 400 and 100. In order to rebalance it we'd need to reboot the router that was missing traffic, and once it was up, reboot the other router. We've actually moved all of our traffic to the G2 cards from the front cards, which may have fixed the issue. We won't know until we have an outage though.
The main thing I want to know, is there a BGP command that would effect how traffic is balanced after reestablishing the inter link?
Here's my config, minus network statements and changed numbers to protect the innocent. 1.1.1.1 would be the inter link, 2.2.2.2 would be the other ISP
router bgp 12345
no synchronization
bgp log-neighbor-changes
! network entries
neighbor 1.1.1.1 remote-as 12345
neighbor 1.1.1.1 ebgp-multihop 3
neighbor 1.1.1.1 update-source Loopback0
neighbor 1.1.1.1 next-hop-self
neighbor 1.1.1.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound
neighbor 2.2.2.2 remote-as 4321
neighbor 2.2.2.2 password 7 00031E0C055800031B32
neighbor 2.2.2.2 next-hop-self
neighbor 2.2.2.2 soft-reconfiguration inbound
neighbor 2.2.2.2 route-map MAP out
no auto-summary
