July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 7m
English
We've discussed controlling inbound traffic flow while discussing peering with a single service provider or multiple service providers, since controlling inbound traffic flow is strongly tied with your peers' BGP and route aggregation policies. Outbound traffic flow control, however, is quite a bit simpler, since IP routing protocols are designed to control the adjacent next hop toward any given destination, and controlling the next hop taken toward any given destination also controls the exit path the traffic takes.
Several methods can be used to control outbound traffic flow using the interior gateway protocol—such as EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF—you ...
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