Frame-Relay Load Balancing

[aspry]

Hello,

I should be grateful if anyone could confirm whether I am going down the right path.

We have two 3600 routers at our central site connecting to two 2600 routers at one of our remote sites over a frame-relay network using EIGRP. We currently use HSRP for resilience purposes.

We are looking at utilising the redundant links, would gateway load balancing be appropriate or is there something else I should be looking at.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Kevin Dorrell]

Yes, GLBP would be the appropriate choice in this case. But bear in mind that GLBP works by sending one or other of the two virtual MAC addresses to each host in response to the ARP. Therefore, the load balancing is not really load balancing; it is host balancing. The load can be a bit uneven, depending on the distribution of traffic between the hosts. But at least it would be better than HSRP.

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg

[aspry]

Kevin

Thanks for your reply.

I will now get on and read up how to configure this on our routers.

Thanks

Andy

[devang_etcom]

look this link for GLBP configuration:http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t15/ft_glbp.htm

hope this will help you

rate this post if it helps

regards

Devang