I just took a quick look at RFC's 1583 and 1247. OSPFv2 does not support
unequal-cost load balancing.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cisco Breaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: OSPF Unequal load balancing? [7:27311]
> 
> 
> As I said before I implemented equal load balancing on 
> Motorola and Cisco
> what I want to know is, Is it possible to configure OSPF unequal load
> balancing ? You are saying that OSPF unequal load balancing 
> can not be done
> on cisco I know that. The reason why I asked the question is 
> cause I know
> that cisco can not do but is it the OSPF behaviour not to 
> implement unequal
> load balancing or is it belong to Cisco's OSPF implementation?
> My guess is OSPF.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> ""Ralph Fudamak""  wrote in message
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> > I don't know how Motorola implements OSPF, but with Cisco's
> > implementation you can not do unequal cost load balancing 
> with OSPF.  This
> > is not to say that you can't manually change the metrics on 
> the links to
> > appear to be equal cost.  Keep in mind that this load 
> balancing is *equal*
> > then. Your slow link will get as much traffic as your fast 
> one, which
> could
> > cause a bottleneck.  See if there is some command to set a 
> default cost on
> > the link, then set them both the same.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > ""Cisco Breaker""  wrote in message
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> > > I implemented OSPF load balancing but never done unequal 
> load balancing.
> > My
> > > customer wants Unequal loadbalancing on Motorola routers. 
> As I know
> > Unequal
> > > load balancing cant be implemented on Cisco without 
> policy-map? Any
> > > suggestions or any info?
> > >
> > > Best regards,




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