Re: outbound load-balancing

From: dara tomar (wish2ie@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 16:19:53 ARST


*Tony,

I find the explanation your right.

Does the cisco OER really provides us with any such function??

Because it's quite basic as a requirement, and I don't see this happening as
per the BW difference between the interfaces.

Regards,
Dara*

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Tony Schaffran (GS) <
groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com> wrote:

> Actually, I do not think that is load-balancing.
>
> Those are just redundant paths and the primary will always be selected as
> the candidate path unless that interface actually goes down.
>
> If there is a problem in the path and that interface stays up, the route
> (marked with *) will not be deleted and your traffic will not get out.
>
> That is how I understand what you are showing. If I am wrong, please
> enlighten me.
>
>
> Tony Schaffran
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Sadiq Yakasai
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:46 AM
> To: Rik Guyler
> Cc: Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: outbound load-balancing
>
> Hi Rik,
>
> You can actually do unequal cost load-balancing on the outbound using
> static routes. Have a look at this (R1 and R3 are dual hommed to each
> other):
>
> 192.168.1.0/24
> R1 <http://192.168.1.0/24R1> (.1)
> ---------------------------------------------- (.3) R3
> ----------------------------------------------
> 162.1.13.0/24
>
> R1#sh run | i ip route
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 162.1.13.3
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.1
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.3
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.4
> ip route 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.3
> ip route 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.3
> ip route 10.10.10.3 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.3
> ip route 10.10.10.4 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.3
> R1#sh ip route 0.0.0.0
> Routing entry for 0.0.0.0/0, supernet
> Known via "static", distance 1, metric 0, candidate default path
> Routing Descriptor Blocks:
> * 192.168.1.3
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
> 162.1.13.3
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
> 10.10.10.4
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
> 10.10.10.3
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
> 10.10.10.1
> Route metric is 0, traffic share count is 1
>
> A nice trick there!
>
> Sadiq
>
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