Why not use BGP?  If both lines are to the same provider, it should be a
no-brainer (relatively speaking of course).  Are you using these T1's for
failover/backups or for expanding bandwidth?  BGP should help in either
case.  The 2600 should be sufficient and I don't think you'd need to have
the the full BGP tables on your router if you're going to the same provider.
Also, you could get away with a private ASN so there wouldn't be any cost to
you.

Now I've never done this, I've only done the BGP with T1's to different
providers, which is considerably more difficult, IMHO.


> Hi Kevin,
>
> We were in the same scenario in which you have described. The way I choose
> to do is keep it simple and efficient and cost effective. We have dual PTP
> connections on a Cisco 2650 with CEF, default routes, and per packet load
> sharing. I can max out the t1's and it barely taxes the router resources
and
> on top of this I have about a 20 line access control list filtering
traffic.
> =) This router is a workhorse and I'm in love it. The 2650 uses a faster
> memory and cpu than the 2621 but I think the 2621 would work.
>
> Hope this helps you in some way,
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W. Kevin Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 2 T1's to our provider [7:49039]
>
> We are upgrading to 2 T1's to our provider, Fractional DS3 is
prohibitively
> expensive in our rural area.
> Has anyone done any speed comparisons on using round robin style static
> routes
> (i.e. 2 default routes w/ same cost) versus EIGRP's load balanceing versus
> running MLPPP on the Serial interfaces?  We're currently using a 2621 but
> are
> open to "bigger" routers.
>
>
>
> Kevin Hunt
> CCNP, MCSE, MCT, Linux+ SME




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