Load balancing with use of router 881.

[KR SHAH]

Hello,

I have two MPLS line and i want load balancing with the help of CISCO router 881. is it necessary that i require two router on both location.? if one location have firewall and one location have cisco router 881 then can i do a load balancing or i require two router each on both location ? What are the basic requirement that i need.

Thanks,

Kuntal

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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An 881 should be able to load share across multiple ports.  Many routing protocol support ECMP, including BGP, but you need "special" hidden/secret commands to enable.  EIGRP also supports unequal cost load sharing.

If an 881 supports OER or PfR, those too will do unequal load sharing, dynamically.