Add another ethernet interface for more Bandwidth

[Brandon Baker]

I had a question about our ASR1006, we currently have two separate gigabitethernet connections coming into our ASR1006 from Fiber from two separate providers BGP. We are running BGP and OSPF, we currently only have one Ethernet connection coming from the ASR1006 to our Core switch which goes into a VLAN (Broadcast not point to point). How can we configure another Ethernet connection over to our Core to allow more bandwidth to get to our ASR?

[Brandon Baker]

The core is configured as a bgp neighbor on the ASR and our 7200VXR, This has always been configured this way since I got involed in this network a few months ago. I just turned on a 2nd ISP into our ASR, (we have a 3rd ISP in the 720VXR that has been here for years as well). So I am not sure if this is why the core is configured as a bgp neighbor in each of our routers or not.

This is a live environment, so you are saying redistribute bgp (my asn correct)?

[Brandon Baker]

When you say to do a 'default information-originate always are meaning on bgp or ospf?

[JohnTylerPearce]

Thanks for the extra information Brandon, that makes more sense now.

So it sounds like you have three different ISPs.

So when your users go to the Internet, which link do they use? Because, from what I gather, before you added this other link, you already have currently two ISP providers.

What is the default route on the Core?

The BGP ASN on the core is, is it the same AS as is configured on the ASR? Just trying to understand if it's iBGP or eBGP.

[Brandon Baker]

I apologize John as I just now saw this response.

You are correct, we have 3 different ISPs, before our users were load balancing between the 2 ISPs that we once had that are in the same Vlan. the default route in our core is for only one of our original ISPs, when I add our new connection in as the default route with the same metric, it then steals the traffic from the original default route, so I am able to pass traffic through the new port now but it is stealing the traffic that was originally going to our 7200VXR.