04-30-2013 02:43 PM - edited 03-04-2019 07:46 PM
We have a 3845 router at one of our remote sites. We want to connect the router to our central office using the two gigabit ports. One link would be the primary and the other would be the secondary (backup). The router is running EIGRP and the two ports would have diffrent ip addresses. How can we set up the router to use gi0/0 as the primary port and gi0/1 as the secondary (backup) port? The backup port would only be used if there was congestion on the primary port or if the primary port went down. Is there a way to force the router to make the primary link the best route?
Remote Router Sample Config:
!
int gi0/0
desc primary link to Central Office
ip addr 10.0.1.84 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
int gi0/1
desc backup link to Central Office
ip addr 10.0.2.84 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
router eigrp 64
network 10.0.0.0
network 172.16.0.0
no auto-summary
!
Central Office Sample Config
!
int gi0/0
desc primary link to Remote Offices
ip addr 10.0.1.254 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
int gi0/1
desc backup link to Remote Offices
ip addr 10.0.2.254 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
router eigrp 64
network 10.0.0.0
network 172.18.0.0
no auto-summary
!
04-30-2013 03:43 PM
Please check the following link:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_q_and_a_item09186a008012dac4.shtml
Try something like this and let me know if it works:
R4(config)# interface GigabitEthernet0/1R4(config-if)# delay 10
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800c2d96.shtml#delayparaR4
(The default delay is 1 when configured under the interface and it equals 10 microseconds )
3845_2(config-if)#delay ?
<1-16777215> Throughput delay (tens of microseconds)
If you use "delay 10", the interface will look this:
3845_2(config-if)#do sho int giga0/1
GigabitEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is down
Hardware is BCM1125 Internal MAC, address is 0015.629a.8aa0 (bia 0015.629a.8aa0)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit/sec, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Regards.
04-30-2013 03:58 PM
Remember to change The delay on The router receiving the update, not the one sending it. On the other hand the route will not change if interface is congested, only PfR can do that...
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05-01-2013 03:00 AM
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Remember to change The delay on The router receiving the update, not the one sending it.
Eh?
Believe if you have two equal cost paths, from two ports, on the same router, you'll want to adjust the EIGRP delay on at least one of those ports.
05-01-2013 08:42 PM
Yes if you recieve two routes you can change the delay on one of the interfaces, I just wanted to remind you you need to change the delay on the interface that recieves the route, not on The router that sends The route
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05-02-2013 03:01 AM
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Ah, I understand what you're saying now.
Thanks.
05-03-2013 02:51 PM
One Other option -
Use Summarization. Advertise summary routes over backup link and specific over the primary Link
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