Re: Square Topologies and Routing Protocol

thanks for the response. All links are running EIGRP... but both serial
links are not on the same router so EIGRP load balancing cannot take place
or not in the way traditional load balancing works.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Larry Hadrava <larryh_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

> Assuming that you are running EIGRP on all of the interfaces or just on the
> serial interfaces?
> If just on the serial then look to see if you see routes from both
> neighbors in the routing table. If so them EIGRP load balancing should be
> taking place.
> If not then you would need to make sure that you are allowing more than 1
> route at a time through EIGRP and take a look at the metric. You may have
to
> adjust the variance to get both routes there as well.
>
> Then you would have to determine how you wanted the load balancing to work
> - per packet or per destination.
> Thanks
> Larry Hadrava
> CCIE #12203 CCNP
> Sr. Support Engineer  IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:
>
>> It's not load balancing already??
>>
>> What's are the metrics for the routes in question, if they aren't even
>> already, you may need to adjust delay or variance.
>>
>> -ryan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> James Howard
>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:03 PM
>> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
>> Subject: Square Topologies and Routing Protocol
>>
>> I have 4 routers in Square topology running EIGRP. R1/R2 connected via
>> GigE
>> and R3/R4 are also connected via GigE. R1 is connected via R3 using a
>> serial
>> links and R2 is connected via R4 using the serial link. I am looking for
>> load balancing on both Serial links without employing dreaded OER.
>>
>> r
>> James
>>
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