What feature can be used to enable BGP load balance manually?

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• Amaximum-path
• Bmaximum-prefix

• A
  94% (17)
• B
  6% (1)

Explanation

The maximum-paths command (A) in BGP enables load balancing by allowing BGP to install multiple equal-cost paths into the routing table simultaneously. By default, BGP only installs a single best path. When maximum-paths is configured (e.g., maximum-paths 4), BGP can select up to that number of paths and distribute traffic across them, effectively enabling multipath load balancing. This is a manual configuration that overrides BGP's default single-path behavior. The maximum-prefix command (B) serves an entirely different purpose - it limits the maximum number of prefixes that BGP will accept from a neighbor, acting as a protective measure to prevent routing table overflow from a misbehaving peer. It has nothing to do with load balancing.

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