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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Load balancing in routers
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Steve Francis wrote: > 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. > Not exactly a "router vendor", but many of the "route-optimization vendors" can implement this on top of bgp by modifying routes based upon link utilization, loss, latency, etc.. -jba -- [[email protected]] :: analogue.networks.nyc :: http://analogue.net
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