well most of the traffic is out going for internet use. We get to other
corporate sites by frame relay on a seperate router. However we will be
shortly be introducing OUTLOOK WEB access on one of our DMZ's so users could
access their corporate mail through the internet, Pix will be doing all the
filtering and security.
Thanks..
Mo Durrani
IS&T
WYSE\EDS
phone:408-473 1246
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2620 and load balancing
True load balancing in this situation is actually pretty difficult to
achieve, especially if you're trying to balance incoming traffic.
Is this connection for incoming access to your services, or is it internet
access for internal users?
Since you're not running BGP, and therefore not advertising your own prefix,
and also since the other ISP connection is not active, I'm going to assume
that this is for outgoing access.
In this case, the bulk of your traffic is incoming web response traffic.
You could try using equal weight static routes, one for each connection.
That would probably accomplish your objective without the added hassle of
running BGP.
If you have internal services that you want to advertise to the rest of the
world, then you most likely need to use BGP. But then you need to get at
least a /24 assigned from one of your ISPs and this isn't always an easy
task. Then, you have to apply for your own autonomous system number. Then
you should figure out RPSL and register your system and prefix information
in the Internet Routing Registry.
And that's just for starters! :-) I would seriously consider just using
static routes, if possible.
Oh, another option is this: check out the Fatpipe Xtreme at
www.fatpipeinc.com. It's a piece of hardware designed to do exactly what
you're thinking about doing, without having to make any extra router
configuration. I don't know much more than that, but we have one of their
reps coming to meet with us next week. If the product turns out to be
really cool, I'll post a report of the meeting.
HTH,
John
>
> If I have two T1'S from different ISP'S and connect them to my 2620, How
do
> I load balance the traffic.Am I thinking of implementing BGP?. At the
moment
> I am just using 1 ISP and keeping the other in standby.I would like to use
> both together and load balance my traffic. We tried it with both TI'S
> wortking to gether but packets were being loss, latency decreasing and all
> sorts of other funky things such as some users could get to some sites and
> others couldnt. Also will it make a differnce if one ISP requires us to
use
> NAT .
>
> Mo Durrani
> IS&T
> WYSE\EDS
> phone:408-473 1246
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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