[46654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Load balancing in routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Francis)
Sun Apr 7 22:57:24 2002
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Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 20:07:04 -0700
From: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com>
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To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
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Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> In order to do more advanced
> things, such as non-equal capacity load balancing, you need to have
> knowledge of the "load" on a link (or the servers in the case of 4-7 load
> balancers). This is something that "routers" have typically avoided, and
> I'm not aware of any router vendors who attempt to do load balancing based
> on the load of a link.
>
cisco's EIGRP can do it, but it is disalbed by default, and not recommended.
