RE: OSPF Load Balancing

From: Colin Barber (Colin.Barber@telewest.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 15:51:34 GMT-3


If the cost is equal for both links then the route will have two entries for
the next hop.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sanfilippo, Ted [mailto:Ted.Sanfilippo@PaeTec.com]
Sent: 13 February 2003 16:24
To: 'Peter van Oene'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: OSPF Load Balancing

Will it show up in the routing table with two separate routes? I couldn't
get this to work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Oene [mailto:pvo@usermail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:48 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OSPF Load Balancing

At 03:44 PM 2/12/2003 -0500, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote:
>Does anyone know how to load balance over OSPF circuits?
>
>If I have the following design:
>
> R1
> / \
> / \
> R2 -----R3
>
>And the network 1.1.1.0 is on the link between R2 and R3, how can I have R1
>send packets via both R2 and R3? Is this Possible?

So long as the metrics are equal, R1 will load balance. If they are
unequal, you could modify them to be equal.

>Ted Sanfilippo
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