From: tom cheung (tkc9789@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 13:17:58 GMT-3
Correct me if I'm wrong. By default, OSPF load balances up to a max of 4
equal cost, equal path-type routes. OSPF does not take into consideration of
hop counts.
Tom
>From: Hansang Bae <hbae@nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Hansang Bae <hbae@nyc.rr.com>
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: OSPF Load Balance
>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 02:57:59 -0500
>
>At 09:54 AM 11/16/2001 -0500, Mchristoffels1@aol.com wrote:
>>I have implemented OSPF Load Balance by making the cost of the interface
>>equal. For some reason traffic is incomming traffic is prefferd on one of
>>the
>>links. I have bounced the adjacencies and OSPF process. before I twig the
>>cost to balance out the traffic has anyone had this issue?
>
>
>I don't think you accomplished what you wanted to do. Setting all the
>costs to be the same causes OSPF to act like RIP. That is, the metric now
>becomes a hop count. So unless you have the same number of hops, it won't
>work.
>
>Even then, route-cache will cause per destination load-balancing.
>
>One other thing to consider, you cannot control incoming packets (unless
>you use bgp)..
>
>hsb
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