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Load balancing WAN, inside and outside trafic

jmecklenburg
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Hi NetPro

Which Cisco device do I need to make a load balancing and faiulre tolerance for two WAN links with different ISP both to inside and outside traffic considering allowed access to published services from WAN interface to LAN.

Regards

fixie rider
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Giuseppe Larosa
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Hello Javier,

using a powerful enough Cisco router with BGP multihoming is fine for outbound traffic.

However, you cannot control the inbound direction.

You can try to influence inbound paths by performing selective AS path prepending towards the ISP eBGP peers but you cannot expect a fair distribution.

This is a known limit of BGP4.

There are other options to optimize outbound traffic sharing including OER but again for inbound direction it is easier to implement a strict hierarchy on return traffic.

for BGP multihoming see

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example09186a008009456d.shtml

effective BGP multihoming would require your company to ask a BGP AS number to RIRs (ARIN, RIPE and the others) and to have associated to it one or more public address blocks

you can consider also a primary/secondary solution using NAT that provides only redundancy but with less requirements

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_white_paper09186a0080091c8a.shtml

So depending on the size of your company the second option might be a better fit.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

Hi Guislar

If don't exist a load balancer like some Allot device?

fixie rider

Hello Javier,

again a load balancer could work for outbound but not for inbound traffic

Each subject in the internet is free to decide how it sends traffic but it cannot influence how the others send back the traffic to it.

This is a question of routing and of current technology.

Even if you don't use BGP it is used by your providers.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

thanks for your help

and for this implementation, a Cisco Router 3800 is enough?

fixie rider

Hello Javier,

a router C3845 can be enough if

you are not going to receive full routing table

the traffic volume the device needs to handle is within 50 Mbps (roughly)

Hope to help

Giuseppe

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