Be prepared to take a SERIOUS cpu hit if you do per packet load balancing
like that. I personally would do LFI setup with multilink PPP instead.
See link and look at the config.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/788/voice-qos/voip-mlppp.html#subfirstone
Tony M.
#6172
----- Original Message -----
From: Santosh Koshy
To:
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Load Balancing... [7:14865]
> Peter,
>
> Here is the "problem i am trying to solve"
>
> - I am located in Canada
> - We have a data center in US. All our users use SAP, Web, FTP, and other
> such applications across the border
> - We currently have one T1 circuit running to the US
> - After monitoring Traffic flow and Utilization we have come to the
> conclusion that the bandwisth is not adequate, and that we have no
> redundancy
> - We have decided to go with 4 links (from 2 different vendors)
> - We use OSPF in Canada.
> - All unknown routes (0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0) are pushed to the "US router"
>
> I was thinking of doing the following
> - Terminating all of these links into one router, and use "per-packet"
load
> balancing to push these packets across the border
> - Use the following config
> ! disable fast switching
> no ip route-cache
> no ip mroute-cache
> ! Use route statements to do per-packet load balancing
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 link1
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 link2
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 link3
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 link4
>
> My only worry is that with the above solution; I will be acheiving
> "per-packet" load balancing, but at the cost of a single point of failure
> (the Router)....
>
> All suggestions are welcome... Thanks a lot guys,
> Santosh Koshy
>
>
> ""Peter Van Oene"" wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Since Howard is in London, allow me to ask "What problem are you trying
to
> > solve?"
> >
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> > On 8/3/2001 at 10:07 PM Santosh Koshy wrote:
> >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > > I have a slight dilemma to which I cannot seem to find a definitive
> > >answer.. We have 4 circuits going from Canada to the US...
> > >
> > >Is it necessary to terminate all the circuits into one router to do
> > >"per-packet" load balancing.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Santosh Koshy
> > >WAN Administrator
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