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Re: Load balancing in routers


From: Steve Francis <steve () expertcity com>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 20:07:04 -0700




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.



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