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From: timr@labtam.labtam.oz (Tim Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Load Balancing
Message-ID: <10613@labtam.labtam.oz>
Date: 29 May 91 02:32:53 GMT
References: <35406@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
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In article <35406@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, HANK@VM.BIU.AC.IL (Hank Nussbacher) writes:
> >Subject: Load Balancing between Equal Cost Routes
> >
> >If two serial links terminate at a the same cisco router at one end and to
> >the same node at the other end, will a cisco router recognise that there
> >are multiple equal cost routes to that node, and places beyond?
> >...
> 
> It all depends what you are routing and also whether you are bridging.
> If you are routing TCPIP traffic it depends on what routing protocol
> is being used.  RIP will not load balance, but IGRP will do a reasonable
> job of balancing the load on the two lines.  If you are routing
> DECNET via Phase IV you will not be using one line at all and it will
> ...

We are routing TCP/IP only and not bridging.

Can anyone recommend sources of the specification of IGRP and/or sample
implementations?

Thanks,
-Tim.