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ISP Switching Over

sridhar_kamath
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I have primary link from ISP A and for redundant purpose we are getting one more additional link from another ISP B. ISP A gives serial output and ISP B gives Ethernet output.

Can I implement the following?

1) I want to use both the links simultaneously

2) When ISP A fails ISP B should take over

3) When ISP B fails ISP A should take over

In this situation

1) How does the router decide to switch when there is a ISP’s failure

Is it when local loop is down or ISP backbone is down or slowness in the link?

Kindly advise the same?

Thanks,

Sridhar Kamath

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t.baranski
Level 4
Level 4

Do both ISP links terminate on the same router? If so, you can load share outbound traffic by configuring two default routes, one pointing out the serial interface and one pointing out the Ethernet interface. You can then enable CEF, which will do per-destination load balancing across equal-cost routes by default. Note that this doesn't affect inbound traffic, however. Inbound load balancing is more difficult, and depends on the details of how your network is setup. Do you have different address blocks from each ISP?

Failover over between ISP's is another matter. If you have point-to-point serial connections (T1, T3, etc.) to an ISP, you can generally rely on the serial interface changing state to "down" when there's an outage. This is enough to remove the default route pointing out that interface from the routing table, which causes all outbound traffic to exit via the other ISP. With one of your ISP handoffs being Ethernet, however, things aren't quite as easy. You're probably going to need to run a routing protocol (BGP, for example) with both ISPs to detect outages. One possibility is to have each ISP advertise only a default route to you. When a link fails, the BGP session with that ISP will go down and the default route advertised by that ISP will go away. This should give you the same functionality as two static default routes pointing out T1/T3 interfaces would.

I'd suggest searching this message board, this site, and the Internet as a whole for information about ISP/BGP load balancing and failover. There's a lot of information out there on this issue (it comes up on messages boards often), and it's not a very simple topic. The book 'High Availability Networking with Cisco' by Vincent Jones is also a good resource.

mehmoodsajid
Level 1
Level 1

hello

you can do that with static route

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 serial 0 192.168.0.1

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ethernet 0 168.16.0.1

if your both links are up so then you can use simultaneously both links and if one links gose down your all trafic go from UP interface

these are the ip address of your serial 0 interface ip address and ethernet 0 ip address

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