11-24-2013 09:51 PM - edited 03-07-2019 04:45 PM
Hi
How many WAN connections (Rj45) supported on ISR G2 router ?
If my router have the data license can I do load balancing between 3 or more WAN connection ?
Thanks & Regards
Lakshman Kumar S
11-28-2013 08:00 AM
The answer to your question depends on the model of ISR G2 that you are talking about. Some ISR G2 come with 2 built in Ethernet interfaces and some come with 3. And they all support various types of WICs and Service Modules that can have Ethernet interfaces or Ethernet switches.
If correctly configured an ISR G2 can certainly load share over 3 or more connections.
HTH
Rick
11-29-2013 08:00 PM
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Take 2921 is my router. It has 3 WAN on board ports and I have taken one more WAN port (EHWIC card one port). I have taken 4 ISP connections. Now can I do load balancing on the router for 4 ISP?
11-28-2013 11:47 AM
Hi,
As Rick also noted, it all depends on the model you are purchasing. For example 3945E comes with 4 on board 10/100/1000 interfaces. So, it all depends.
for more info see table-7 in this link:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps10536/data_sheet_c78_553924.html
HTH
11-29-2013 07:41 AM
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As Rick and Reza have both noted, number of routable Ethernet ports varies per ISR G2 model. Ethernet switch options would allow the most Ethernet ports, but you need to route through them using SVIs.
However, most ISR G2s often do not have the performance capacity to run their built-in Ethernet ports at full capacity. Often the add-in Ethernet ports have bandwidth restrictions to/from the port.
Basically, ISR G2 routers were designed to have a LAN Ethernet connection and some WAN, non-Ethernet connection, of much less bandwidth.
ISR G2 router performance is also very much impacted by device configuration.
11-29-2013 08:01 PM
Take 2921 is my router. It has 3 WAN on board ports and I have taken one more WAN port (EHWIC card one port). I have taken 4 ISP connections. Now can I do load balancing on the router for 4 ISP?
11-29-2013 08:20 PM
Now can I do load balancing on the router for 4 ISP?
It's not a question of how many Layer 3 ports do you have but the amount of bandwidth you expect your router to do.
11-30-2013 03:47 AM
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Can you load balance all 4 ports - sure.
Will it work well - depends. Cisco recommends the 2921 for up to 50 Mbps of WAN (duplex) bandwidth. So, if all 4 ports were running at 10 Mbps, you would probably be fine. If you want to run the ports at 100 or 1,000, maybe not so fine (depends on how much traffic actually goes up/down the ports.
Also, don't know what bandwidth the EWHIC module slot supports.
11-30-2013 06:04 AM
Certainly the 2921 is technically capable of sharing load over 4 interfaces. How well it will work depends on several factors. As Leo and Joseph have indicated there is some question about how much bandwidth you expect it to support. I would suggest that there are other factors to consider as well:
- do you intend to do the load sharing with static routing or with dynamic routing?
- your question implies that these are connections to the Internet via ISP, is this the case?
- if it is to the Internet is it the same ISP for all interfaces, or is it different ISPs?
- if it is different ISPs then each ISP may have slightly different policies for Internet access which you may need to accommodate and which may complicate your configuration.
- if it is multiple ISP then whose address space will you use? and how will you advertise the address space to multiple ISP?
HTH
Rick
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