Heads Up :
The post you are writing will appear in a public forum. Please ensure all content is appropriate for public consumption. Review the employee guidelines for the community here.
Anyone using either the IOS SLB or Cat6k CSMRoute Health Injection (RHI) feature? Can anyoneexplain how this is different than anycast, or is itactually anycast? It appears to be a limited formof anycast to me.http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/e...
The CSM and SupIOS on the Catalyst 6500 platform support anycast through the IOS SLB and/or RHI features. If the CSS or other load balancer supports anycast, I'd be interested in hearing about it, as well.
You could also use the RHI feature with the same /32 and inject it into both routing tables statically, then redistribute the /32 into OSPF/EIGRP/ISIS (which in turn puts it back into the routing table as two ECMP entries) or BGP (same effect). You ...
> They do not necessarily see each other as there is no physical orlogical connection and no IBGP sessions. EBGP sessions are configuredwith allowas-in. This works for some transit links (we see the routesfrom the other data center) but not for othe...
Here is one source of information on distributed data centers:http://www.cisco.com/networkers/nw02/post/presentations/docs/NSC-284.pdf-You have a few options for doing this, but some is dependent on how yournetwork is setup:- How do your data centers...
How does it detect that the service has failed? Are you currently using this in a production environment? Does one have to configure the /32 host route as an alias on the loopback interface on the servers that hold the VIP? Any other configuration...