Load balancing using eigrp

[esilavwe]

I need to do load balancing for two links headed for the same destination. One link is a 64K radio link direct to the destination. The other link has a 64K link to another router, that is then connected to the final destination via a 128K radio link. What should the load balancing configuration look like? Should it be on all the three routers involved? I have tried the following script on the source router:

router eigrp 100

variance 3

But traffic keeps on going through the directly connected link and the one with two hops is not being used.

Please help

[sundar.palaniappan]

Unfortunately, that's true that you would have to configure the far end device (main router) to perform load balancing for the return traffic. One option you have is if you are using p-t-p (sub-int) interfaces on the far end device then you can tweak the bw&delay to make the routes show up with even metric across both links back to the remote. Though this mayn't be an optimal solution as it mayn't reflect the actual bw of the link but it's an option especailly if you can't modify anything globally under the EIGRP process.

HTH,

Sundar

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