Cisco 1921 router

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hello all,

Lately we have been comsidering an upgrade in our organization involving a 1921 router. The main role it will play is a load balancer/failover between 2 connections from 2 different ISPs. what additions are required to be added to this piece of equipment to make the configuration work. Im researching the matter now and it seems an extra card whould be purchased in addition to the router. Also, i cant seem to find much information on the available licenses to go with the router. will i need a special license to utilize the balancer/failover feature? (ip base, data, SEC).

thank you

[blau grana]

Hello Anis,

You can use this tool to find out what IOS release you need to support features you want.

http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/jsp/SearchBySoftware.jsp

What do you mean to load balance/failover?

Do you run BGP with ISPs?

Best Regards

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[Richard Burts · Accepted solution]

The original poster has not told us what kind of connection the ISPs use so we do not know whether the provided Ethernet interfaces are adequate or whether additional cards are required for the ISP connections.

The original poster has also not told us what kind of load balancing is being used and whether they plan on changing that as part of the upgrade. So this makes it difficult to say what is needed on the 1921 router.

Part of what we can say is that if both ISP are using Ethernet connections and if there is to be a single connection to the inside network also on Ethernet then adding an Ethernet card to the router should take care of the hardware addition. If the load balancing and failover are based on traditional features such as static routes, or running dynamic routing protocols with the providers then there should not be any requirement for additional licensing for the 1921. If there is a need to do things like encrypt traffic then the Security license would be required.

HTH

Rick