| | ISP TECH TALK - May 1997 |
 | | If you do decide to multi-home to the same provider and run two equal-bandwidth pipes into either the same router at the provider's side, or routers at the same POP, you can set no ip route-cache on your serial interfaces and things should work well. |
| | We'll go into more detail on this in future columns, and we will discuss the actual algorithms used by routers and providers to make and tune these decisions. |
| | Remote routers will generally decide which is the best route of multiple BGP routes by picking the route with the shortest AS_PATH (that is, the route that has traveled few the fewest providers) to get from start to finish. |
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