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Posted by Russianj on April 29, 2008, 6:20 pm
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If anyone could give me a moment's time to clear up this question, I
would be most appreciative. Thanks.
On Apr 23, 11:14 am, russi...@gmail.com wrote:
> I posted a couple of weeks ago about EIGRP over MPLS. The scenario
> that I was having problems with was balancing the traffic across two
> T1s attached to two Cisco 3845s. We have HSRP for redundancy, but on a
> suggestion from this group, I am pursuing configuringGLBPinstead of
> HSRP. However, now, I am wondering if I should setupGLBPon both
> sides of the routers, i.e. both into the MPLS cloud to which all
> branches are attached and into the LAN. Below are the two setups that
> I am considering (best viewed in fixed-width font). I am using EIGRP
> for routing traffic across the MPLS cloud. My question is this, how
> will EIGRP broadcast the route back to these two routers to our branch
> offices? If I setupGLBPon both sides of the two routers, will I be
> balancing traffic more efficiently than EIGRP can do on the MPLS
> links? Thanks.
>
> ||==========||----------HOSTRTR01-----\
> <branches>-|| MPLS || GLBP-------LAN
> ||==========||----------HOSTRTR02-----/
>
> ||==========|| /-----HOSTRTR01-----\
> <branches>-|| MPLS ||-GLBP GLBP-------LAN
> ||==========|| \-----HOSTRTR02-----/
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