Yes sir, HSRP routers will definately not use the T1's for anything but 1
active, 1 pulsing (standby)....Not designed for load balancing....Redundancy
only.
Marc
"Sam Sneed" wrote in message
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> I think it would help if I gave you the scenario I was envisioning. I
would
> like to plan a network where we have 2 seperate routers connecting to our
> ISP or perhaps 2 seperate ISP's. Lets assume 1 ISP, 2 routers ,each with
its
> own full T1 line for simplicity. If 1 router died, I'd like to keep the
> internet connection alive without changing any of the clients default
> gateways. I figured HSRP would be good to apply here becuase it acts as 1
> virtual router. But, would that mean that 1 router would be idle at all
> times not allowing me to ever get more than 1.5MB bandwidth? Or this extra
> idle T1 line just the cost of redundancy in this case?
>
>
> ""Marc"" wrote in message
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> > HSRP is for router redundancy, not WAN circuit redundancy. If you wanted
> to
> > have internet or WAN circuit redundacy, you would of course use two
lines,
> > have equal-cost routes (two default routes...etc) and that's all that's
> > involved. HSRP not needed for WAN load-balancing/redundancy...
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > "Sam Sneed" wrote in message
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> > > I was doing a little research on HSRP and had a question for anyone
who
> > has
> > > configured it. I read the whole RFC 2281 and could not find my answer
> > there.
> > > If you have two routers running HSRP with T1 lines to the internet, 1
is
> > the
> > > standby and one is the active. Does all traffic only go through the
> active
> > > at all times unless it dies? If so isn't it a waste not ever utilizing
> the
> > > T1 line thats on standby (of course until the active fails)?
> > >
> > > If bandwidth exceeded 1.5MB would the second router kick in to share
the
> > > load or would it totally take over?
> > >
> > > With these 2 routers acting as a single virtual router would
throughput
> > > ever be able to exceed 1.54 MB assuming each has its own T1
connection?
> > >
> > > thanks
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