01-17-2012 03:59 PM - edited 03-04-2019 02:56 PM
Hi,
I have two offices in rural area with a quite distance between them. Offices are connected with private wireless 100Mbps and cooper 100Mbps links provided by different ISP. Wireless connections are delivered as a private L3 Ethernet link but cooper as private L2 Ethernet trunk link. In both offices I have Cisco 3750 L3 switches. I would like to use both link (equal-cost paths) in load balanced configuration but not sure how. Both switches running EIGRP. Asymmetric routing is not an option. Per-destination load-balancing or something else?
Any help is appreciate
Thanks
01-17-2012 06:07 PM
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Not quite sure how you avoid asymmetrical routing when load balancing. Could you clarify this requirement?
01-18-2012 08:12 AM
I'll be sending voice traffic via these links. Can somehow load balancing be symmetric or do I have any other solution to aggregate these two links?
01-17-2012 07:16 PM
could you route the copper Ethernet link? If so you could adjust the metrics to be equal cost at which point load balancing would be automatic.
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01-18-2012 08:54 AM
If on both link cost are equal (as per EIGRP resulted metric from both links) then EIGRP will do load-balancing by default.
However if both links cost are resulted in not equal metrics, then you can enable unequal cost load-balancing, please follow the Cisco documentation.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a008009437d.shtml
I assume this is how your offices are connected.
|-------wireless------ | __
| Office A | | Office B |
| |______wired____| |
Thanks
Rizwan Rafeek
01-18-2012 09:38 AM
I don't think that 3750 switches can do unequal cost load balacing.
One would need a true router for that, an is not a good idea anyway.
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