Re: load balance on ospf [7:27761]

2001-11-29 Thread Gayathri

Howard,

Thanks for the input

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> >Hi Group,
> >
> >Is it possible to load balance between a 2Mb link and 1Mb link on a cisco
> >router running OSPF, since they are not equal bandwidth?
> >Appreciate if anyone can enlighten how we can acheive this? A quick
search
> >on cisoc site did not furnish much details for me. Apart from tuning the
> >cost is there a good way of doing this?
> >
> >Thanks
>
> Try looking at it this way. Routing protocols do not know about load
> balancing. None of them do.
>
> Some routing protocols can produce multiple equal cost routes. EIGRP
> can make unequal cost routes look equal cost to the routing table
> installation task.
>
> But it is the routing table manager, in conjunction with the
> interface switching modes, that decides on load balancing.  There is
> no one best way to do load balancing, which is, in any case, only a
> local optimization that will not optimize  the end-to-end path.




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Re: load balance on ospf [7:27761]

2001-11-29 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz

>Hi Group,
>
>Is it possible to load balance between a 2Mb link and 1Mb link on a cisco
>router running OSPF, since they are not equal bandwidth?
>Appreciate if anyone can enlighten how we can acheive this? A quick search
>on cisoc site did not furnish much details for me. Apart from tuning the
>cost is there a good way of doing this?
>
>Thanks

Try looking at it this way. Routing protocols do not know about load 
balancing. None of them do.

Some routing protocols can produce multiple equal cost routes. EIGRP 
can make unequal cost routes look equal cost to the routing table 
installation task.

But it is the routing table manager, in conjunction with the 
interface switching modes, that decides on load balancing.  There is 
no one best way to do load balancing, which is, in any case, only a 
local optimization that will not optimize  the end-to-end path.




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