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Re: [FW-1] Multiple default routes on Nokia



You know that BGP wont do load-balancing... :)

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Bill Husler [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:03 PM
Para: [email protected]
Assunto: Re: [FW-1] Multiple default routes on Nokia


> Dan,
>     Thanks for the great response, luckily the 110 is only in the lab
> and
> would not be pressed into service in this sort of environment.
> Would option 1 (BGP) be viable if there were a pair of 530s and a pair
> of routers supporting a multiple DS3 internet connection.
> Bill
>
> On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 10:35 AM, Dan Hitchcock wrote:
>
>> As with other routers, using multiple default routes will not (as you
>> have observed) provide "poor man's load balancing". You have several
>> options:
>>
>> #1 - run BGP on your Nokia box (not recommended - this will kill an
>> IP110)
>> #2 - run something more benign like RIP, run BGP on your border
>> routers, and redistribute your BGP routes into RIP (this will probably
>> also put quite a load on your firewall, and may become an
>> administrative headache)
>>
>> #3 - use a load-balancer product like RadWare or Foundry to
>> dynamically share the load across the two links
>> #4 - "split the internet" by creating two routes to represent the
>> internet. For example, I've found in the past that a routing table
>> like this will give a decent balance of traffic on the links (although
>> this may vary greatly depending on the nature of traffic in your
>> network):
>>
>> network        gateway
>> 0.0.0.0/1       router1
>> 128.0.0.0/2 router1
>> 0.0.0.0/0      router2
>>
>> This will send addresses 0.0.0.0-191.255.255.255 out router1, and the
>> rest out router2. You could obviously just split in in half as well,
>> but I found that to be lopsided in terms of utilization in my
>> environment.
>>
>> HTH - any comments, disagreements, etc are, as always, welcome.
>>
>> Dan Hitchcock
>>
>>
>>> We have a Nokia (110) and two upstream routers in parallel and would
>>> like the firewall to use both paths. I added both router's IP
>>> addresses
>>> plug it back in, all the traffic reverts to the second route again. Is
>>> there any way to set it up to use both?
>>

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