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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? >> =============================================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html =============================================== =============================================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ===============================================
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