From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 16:08:18 GMT-3
At 2:08 PM -0400 9/22/03, Vazman@aol.com wrote:
> R2-----FR----R5
> | |
> R1-| |- R4
> Client-| |- Server
> R3-----FR----R6
>
>R1, R2 and R3 in OSPF area 20 (Totally stubby)
>R4, R5 and R6 in OSPF area 0
>R1, R2, R3 and Client are on same LAN Segment
>R4, R5, R6 and Server are on same LAN Segment
>Client uses R1 as default gateway
>Server uses R4 as default gateway
>Need to load-balance across both links.
>
>R1 sees a default route from R2 and R3 via OSPF. Traffic from R1 to
>server is load balanced across both links. Verified this by turning
>on IP Accounting on R2 and R3.
>But traffic from client to server is going via one link only.
I'm confused by this. Do you mean client to R1 to server, or perhaps
server to client?
If the default route is seen as an external, OSPF won't load balance
across links defined in LSA-5's. You can get the effect of load
balancing with closest exit in a more complex topology than yours.
>I am using per-packet load balancing on R1 (E0).
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