Command Reference Guide

3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family balance ● 25
Command Reference
balance
Purpose Use the balance command to configure the number of routes participating in BGP
load balancing
.
Use the undo balance command to restore the default, that is, 1. In this case, load
balancing is disabled.
Syntax balance num
undo balance
Parameters num
Number of the BGP routes participating in load
balancing. It is in the range 1 to 8. When it is set to 1,
load balancing is disabled.
Example Set the number of routes participating in BGP load balancing to 2.
[3Com ] bgp 100
[3Com -bgp] balance 2
View This command can be used in the following views:
■ BGP view
Description Different from IGP, BGP is just a single-purpose routing protocol and therefore has no
explicit metric for making load balancing decision. Instead, it implements load
balancing by changing its routing rule
.
Related Command displayip routing-table