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Load Balancing on Cisco 2600 Series?
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| sting06 2005-04-06, 8:49 pm |
| Hey! My company is looking into getting a fractional T1 internet connection through a company other than our current service provider. We currently have a Cisco 2600 Series Router in place to handle a T1 coming into the office, however we are going to get a fractional T1 connection to help with some load issues we are dealing with at the present momement and serve as a redundant link if needed.
Does anyone know if a Cisco 2600 Series router will be able to do load balancing of the 2 connections? | |
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| sting06 2005-04-06, 10:29 pm |
| thank you much. | |
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| Multiple ISP load balancing is one of the harder problems to lick in the inbound side as much depends on how your public address space is advertised by each of your ISPs. In short there is no quick answer as to what will happen.
For Egress you did not indicate if both links are in the same router or not. If they are in different then gateway load balancing will help, if they both go into the same router stuff gets tricky as you probably do not want to do 50-50 between the two links. If you code static default routes to both links you will get 50-50. Or you would run a protocol like EIGRP that supports unequal cost load balancing.
Anyway I would suggest you get some help from the new ISP to discover your configuration and determine what will happen. |
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