Re: EIGRP load balancing

From: Joe Chang (changjoe@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 04:09:00 GMT-3


Kind of a silly suggestion: did you do a "clear ip route <ip of the eigrp
route>". Maybe that will get the two paths to show up on the routing table.

----- Original Message -----
From: "JamesGEF" <jamesgef@sympatico.ca>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:10 PM
Subject: EIGRP load balancing

> I could never get this to work. I have one router with two unequal EIGRP
EX
> paths to a destination. The FD is 261120 and the the distance through the
FS
> is 386560. Now, in my routing tables, I only have route the route with
> distance 261120.
>
> If I read correctly, by entering the variance command, I would
load-balance
> over unequal paths. If I enter variance 2 under my router configuration,
> shouldn't the router place both routes in my routing tables as 386560 is
less
> than 2x261120?
>
> As CCO states for the variance command: "The multiplier times the local
best
> metric for the destination must be greater than or equal to the metric
through
> the next router"
>
> Looking for clarification...
>
> James
>
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