Redundancy and Load Balancing

[rodnei.magalhaes]

Hi.

I have 02 routers Cisco 2610XM and 01 switch Catalyst 3550 (vide attachment) and I need a help to implement a redundancy and load balancing in my environment using my switch.

What I have to do? Some friends told me that I can use HSRP but it doesn´t work...

Thanks.

[sarbjeet-dhillon]

Hi,

By implementing HSRP on the two routers you can provide a redundant default gateway for your client. If one router (active) fails the other router (backup) takes over.

Follow the steps in this whitepaper for implementing HSRP

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6600/products_white_paper09186a00804fab8f.shtml

Let me know how you get on.

Sarb

[rodnei.magalhaes]

Sarb,

Thank you very much for your reply.

My environment has changed since my question. Now, I have 2 switches Catalyst3550 and 2 routers 2610XM (vide attachment)

To implement the HSRP in my environment, I have configured the layer3 in the switches and configuration is the following:

Switch01

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interface vlan1

ip address 10.150.21.3 255.255.255.0

standby 1 ip 10.150.21.5

standby 1 priority 110

standby 1 preempt

standby 1 track vlan1

ip route 10.150.1.0 255.255.255.0 10.150.21.2

ip route 172.16.62.44 255.255.255.252 10.150.21.253

ip route 172.16.62.48 255.255.255.252 10.150.21.254

Switch02

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interface vlan1

ip address 10.150.21.4 255.255.255.0

standby 1 ip 10.150.21.5

standby 1 priority 105

standby 1 preempt

standby 1 track vlan1

ip route 10.150.1.0 255.255.255.0 10.150.21.3

ip route 172.16.62.44 255.255.255.252 10.150.21.253

ip route 172.16.62.48 255.255.255.252 10.150.21.253

My firewall is using as gateway the IP 10.150.21.5.In the routers I have added just the static routes from my Lan. I need to change something in my routers?

Another question... Just using static routes can I have load balancing?

Thanks

Rodnei