Hi Evan,
Ospf is like 6 equal cost paths and EIGRP is like 4 equal or unequal cost
paths. EIGRP is more flexible to have unequal load balancing.
Cu
Geert Hampe
CCNP+Voice+ATM CCDP
Evan You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> What is the maximum number of equal-path equal-cost load sharing /
balancing
> will OSPF or EIGRP do?
>
> Basically, I have 12 T1 circuits that I am thinking of load-sharing
between
> two Data Centers. I am either thinking of using a Larscom Orion 4000 IMUX
to
> bundle the T1 into two groups and out into HSSI interfaces of the 7000
> routers, or just simply hook-up all 12 T1 directly to the routers and have
> them load-share the links via routing protocols. But I am not certain if
the
> second option will work. I know that the routers will be taxed more and
the
> network overall will have several more routes to handle, but the advantage
> is that each link is completely redundant from each other. But more than
> anything, I am not sure if any routing protocols will handle 12
> equal-path/equal-cost load-sharing and balancing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Evan You - CCNA
>
>
>
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