Re: Square Topologies and Routing Protocol

Right. That is why I was asking about EIGRP running over all links or not.
So, what is the goal that you are trying to achieve? Load balancing across
which links?

Thanks
Larry Hadrava
CCIE #12203 CCNP
Sr. Support Engineer  IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:30 PM, James Howard
<jamesh.howard37_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 <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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