Two T1's going to the same ISP? Why not use PPP and make one big pipe? I
like simple answers.
Check your port/speed/duplex settings on the new switch.
""Chuck Larrieu"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> So what was the problem you found that was effecting traffic negatively?
>
> CEF does not necessarily "load share" equally across two paths. It can be
> set up to do "per source/destination" or "per packet"
> Per source/destination has the usual problems - all traffic can end up
going
> across one link. Per packet will indeed share traffic more or less equally
> across two links.
>
> My reading indicates that CEF per packet is actually the way to go if one
> wants to balance traffic equally across two paths.
>
> ( Cisco press book Network Design and Case Studies )
> ( BTW anyone else think this book is not all that good? )
>
> HTH
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Steve Smith
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: CEF or round robin
>
> OK gang I need to opinions.
>
> We set up 2 point-to-point Ts to a client running CEF. Everything seemed
> to work fine, speed was good, packets per T was about equal. Then we had
> a switch go bad. We replaced it but still had a sluggish network. Some
> of our techs came in from another office and together we found the
> problem.
>
> While looking around they saw CEF per-packet was set on the 2 Ts. They
> informed our CEO that was really wrong and should not be ran that way.
> They said "round robin is the only real way to utilize 2 Ts". I say #
> *!
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
>
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