Load Balancing Across Multiple Routers

[gary00001]

Hi All

I have two seperate landing points on the same physical ethernetwork. I have 2 3845 routers as my WAN gateways.

I have a 512k line going from Router A and another 512k line going from Router B landing at the same point at Router C, what is the best way to load share between the 2 core router (Router A & B)

[pkhatri]

Hi,

One option is to run a routing protocol and announce the same routes via both A and B. Depending on the proximity of a host to A or B, traffic for a particular host may flow via either A or B. In general, depending on your topology, you will be able to get a reasonable split of traffic between the two routers.

Paresh

[gary00001]

I am in the proccess of rolling ospf out is that protocol the right solution for my purpose or should i also set HSRP up

[arvindchari]

In my experience, HSRP has been extensively used in LAN setups with fast ethernet links. OSPF would give you much more control in terms of granularity and in terms of bandwidth consumption on the line. IMHO OSPF would be a better choice.