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Re: Load balancing in routers

  • From: Steve Francis
  • Date: Sun Apr 07 22:59:16 2002


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.