Load balancing between 2 ISPs & Licensing

[mark.gatt]

Hi,

I have recently my old router with a new Cisco 2911/K9 router which will be used across 2 ISPs with a dual WAN configuration and thus will need to have load balancing between the 2 connections, in case one connection fails all incoming traffic shall automatically switch to the secondary connection. I need to know whether I need to purchase any particular license for this model to achieve this kind of setup ?

Thanks 

Best regards 

Mark G

[Mark Malone]

Hi if your using very basic cef LB with default routes or statics should work out of the box on standard license , but if your doing LB with BGP and multi-homed ISP setup you may need advanced license for BGP , whats your setup going to be will determine the license requirement really

[mark.gatt]

I will only do basic load balancing between 2 ISPs but the failover on the other connection must be fully automated, no need of BGP or advanced services.

Do I still need any new licenses ? 

Thanks 

[Mark Malone · Accepted solution]

you need a data license if your going to use ipsla and do tracking with pbr , ipbase supports bgp as below  so you could do it that way either if its an option

1 Using just defaults

http://www.firewall.cx/cisco-technical-knowledgebase/cisco-routers/813-cisco-router-ipsla-basic.html

2 with pbr

http://www.firewall.cx/cisco-technical-knowledgebase/cisco-routers/861-cisco-router-pbr-ipsla-auto-redirect.html

Technology Package	Details	Software Activation Feature Licenses	Right to Use Feature Licenses
IPBaseK9	Offers features found in IPBase IOS image on ISR 1800,2800 and 3800 + Flexible Netflow + IPV6 parity for IPV4 features present in IPBase. Some of the key feature are AAA BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, RIP PBR IGMP, Multicast DHCP HSRP, GLBP NHRP HTTP HQF QoS ACL, NBAR GRE CDP, ARP NTP PPP PPPoA PPPoE RADIUS TACACS SCTP SMDS SNMP STP VLAN DTP IGMP Snooping SPAN WCCP ISDN ADSL over ISDN NAT-Basic X.25, RSVP, NTP, Flexible Netflow etc.	None	None
SECK9	Offers the security features found in Advanced Security IOS image on ISR 1800,2800 and 3800 e.g. IKE v1 / IPsec / PKI, IPsec/GRE, Easy VPN w/ DVTI, DMVPN, Static VTI, Firewall, Network Foundation Protection,GETVPN etc.	SSLVPN (counted) Intrusion Prevention (Subscription) Content Filtering (Subscription)	None
UC	Offers the UC Features found in IPVoice IOS image on ISR 1800,2800 and 3800 e.g. TDM/PSTN Gateway, Video Gateway[H320/324],Voice Conferencing, Codec Transcoding, RSVP Agent (voice), FAX T.37/38, CAC/QOS, Hoot-n-Holler etc.	Gatekeeper	Land Mobile Radio CME: Voice & Video (counted) SRST: Voice & Video (Counted) VXML/IVR Gateway (Counted) CUBE [IPIP Gateway] (Counted)
DATA	Data features found in SP Services and Enterprise Services IOS image on ISR 1800,2800 and 3800 e.g. MPLS, BFD, RSVP ,L2VPN, L2TPv3 ,Layer 2 Local Switching , Mobile IP, Multicast Authentication,FHRP-GLBP ,IP SLAs, PfR ,DECnet, RSRB, BIP, DLSw+, FRAS, Token Ring ,ISL, IPX ,STUN, SNTP, SDLC, QLLC etc.	SNA Switching	None

[mark.gatt]

Thanks