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Regarding of Load Balancing

md.farook
Level 1
Level 1

Dear Friends,

we have planned to impliment GLBP between outside interface of firewall and beween two Routers. My query is when i was tested by configuring GLBP it was not shared load between these two Routers. Kindly help me on this

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pompeychimes
Level 4
Level 4

How did you determine that the load wasn't shared?

James

there is no traffic flowing through interface i.e i/p&o/p trafic value is equal to Zero

OK. To be clear are we talking about Cisco's GLBP? If so, are your

Firewalls(s) capable of running this protocol?

Please post your GLBP configs and the output from "sh glbp"

James

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:03 AM, md.farook <

interface GigabitEthernet0/0
ip address 10.X.X.2 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
no ip unreachables
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
no ip route-cache cef
no ip route-cache
no ip mroute-cache
duplex full
speed 100
no mop enabled
glbp 1 ip 10.X.X.1
glbp 1 priority 110
glbp 1 weighting track 1 decrement 10
glbp 1 weighting track 2 decrement 10
end

interface GigabitEthernet0/0
ip address 10.X.X.3 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
no ip unreachables
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat inside
no ip virtual-reassembly
no ip route-cache cef
no ip route-cache
no ip mroute-cache
duplex auto
speed auto
media-type rj45
no mop enabled
glbp 1 ip
glbp 1 priority 150
glbp 1 preempt
glbp 1 weighting track 1 decrement 50
glbp 1 weighting track 2 decrement 50
end

Hi Farook,

Would you be able to share configuration/Diagram? Will be easy to under stand scenario with Diagram and config.

Hi Farook,

Below command would help you for load balancing.

glbp

group load-balancing [host-dependent |round-robin| weighted]

Rate if you find it useful.

already Loadbalance is applied on them

3825#sh glbp
GigabitEthernet0/0 - Group 1
  State is Active
    1 state change, last state change 04:48:11
  Virtual IP address is .1
  Hello time 3 sec, hold time 10 sec
    Next hello sent in 1.492 secs
  Redirect time 600 sec, forwarder timeout 14400 sec
  Preemption enabled, min delay 0 sec
  Active is local
  Standby is .2, priority 110 (expires in 9.472 sec)
  Priority 150 (configured)
  Weighting 100 (default 100), thresholds: lower 1, upper 100
    Track object 1 state Up decrement 50
    Track object 2 state Up decrement 50
  Load balancing: round-robin
  Group members:
    0024.c4b0.7640 (.2)
    0024.c4bc.7df0 (.3) local
  There are 2 forwarders (1 active)
  Forwarder 1
    State is Active
      1 state change, last state change 04:47:33
    MAC address is 0007.b400.0101 (default)
    Owner ID is 0024.c4bc.7df0
    Redirection enabled
    Preemption enabled, min delay 30 sec
    Active is local, weighting 100
    Client selection count: 1
  Forwarder 2
    State is Listen
    MAC address is 0007.b400.0102 (learnt)
    Owner ID is 0024.c4b0.7640
    Redirection enabled, 597.976 sec remaining (maximum 600 sec)
    Time to live: 14397.976 sec (maximum 14400 sec)
    Preemption enabled, min delay 30 sec
    Active is .2 (primary), weighting 100 (expires in 7.976 sec)

milan.kulik
Level 10
Level 10

Hi,

do I understand correctly you have your FW WAN interface connected to an Ethernet segment together with two Cisco routers and expect the traffic sent from the FW to the routers to load balance between those two routers?

If yes, GLBP will not help you at all :-(

As it's based on two (or more) routers replying to the virtual IP address ARP requests.

In your case, the FW will send an ARP request for the vitrual IP address. One of the routers will reply.

So the FW will use that router to send ALL the traffic out.

When the virtual IP address ARP cache entry expires on the FW (after 4 hours on most devices by default), it will send another ARP request.

And again one (possibly the second) router replies.

Again, the FW will send ALL traffic to the router which replied.

So it has no sense using GLBP in this topology.

It's useful in case of a huge LAN with many PCs sharing two routers as default GW, e.g. But not in this case.

HTH,

Milan

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