Load balanced T3s

colin.higgins · ‎03-15-2002

I have a 3640 with 2 hssi interfaces, connected to 2 DS3 circuits. I am load-balancing the traffic simply through 2 default static routes -ex:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <isp's router>

I also have the statement "down when looped" on both interfaces. The router is not running and routing protocols. However, when one circuit fails, the router continues to load balance the traffic into the bad link, thus packets get dropped. Is there a way around this?

james.feger · ‎03-15-2002

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

If you use the interface as the gateway, the route will go away if the interface goes down.

james.feger · ‎03-15-2002

Ugh

It should read:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 interface1

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 interface2

Where interface is the actual interface of the connection.

colin.higgins · ‎03-15-2002

I changed it to read

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 hss1/0

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 hss2/0

but if one link fails, I STILL get lost packets. The router is still trying to send data over the failed link. What's up with this?

qshaw · ‎03-15-2002

Make sure that default route over the failed link disappear when the line fails. if it disappears, ask your provider to confirm their route of two links.

Back your config to use the next-hop-ipaddress, that is better always if you know exactly what it is.

o.hassairi · ‎03-16-2002

whatis the value of the parameter: keepalive?

colin.higgins · ‎03-18-2002

keepalive is set to 10