# BGP Labs: Load Balancing across EBGP Paths

DevFeed: [BGP Labs: Load Balancing across EBGP Paths](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bgp-labs-load-balancing-across-ebgp-paths-10998.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/05/bgp-labs-ebgp-ucmp/>)

Published: 2024-05-21T06:27:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [Algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithm.md>)

Tags: [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [load-balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancing.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>)

## AI overview

A BGP lab exercise on configuring equal-cost load balancing across EBGP paths and adjusting the equal-cost algorithm to consider AS path length rather than AS path contents.

## Source excerpt

Let's open another juicy can of BGP worms: load balancing. In the first lab exercise, you'll configure equal-cost load balancing across EBGP paths and tweak the "What is equal cost?" algorithm to consider just the AS path length, not the contents of the AS path.