Load Balance between 2 Cisco 3750 switches with equal-cost paths

[wilson.jr]

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

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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Not quite sure how you avoid asymmetrical routing when load balancing.  Could you clarify this requirement?

[wilson.jr]

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?

[Jeff Van Houten]

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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[rizwanr74]

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

[paolo bevilacqua]

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.