[c-nsp] Load sharing using bvi interface

[Rodney Dunn]

You can't get the routing protocol to neighbor
on secondary addresses.

You should connect the FE ports to
a switch and do run an etherchannel
for this.  That would be the cleanest
solution to bond the two FE's together.

Rodney


On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:46:19PM +0200, Rob Polland wrote:
> Hi all, 
> I have two routers attached through ethernet segment, one router has
> two fastethernet interfaces and the other has a single gigabit
> ethernet interface. i want to load balance the traffic between the two
> interfaces and the the gigabit interface ( upload and download) also
> to run a dynamic routing protocol between them.  router1 is the router
> with 2 fast ethernet interfaces and router2 is with gigabit
> interface), we configured the interface by the following
> 
> router1
> ---------
> interface fast 0/0
> ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0
> 
> int fast 1/1
> ip address 11.11.11.1 255.255.255.0
> 
> router2
> ----------
> interface gigabit 5/1
> ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.0
> ip address 11.11.11.2 255.255.255.0 secondary
> 
> 
> the problem is that rip is the only routing protocol working over a
> secondary address on router 2, and i want to run ospf between the two
> routers and load share between the 2 interfaces( upload and download)
> 
> any way I have some configuration in mind but I dont know if this will
> work fine or not also if anyone has another solution please help me
> with it
> 
> the solution i have in mind is using irb bridging with a bvi interface
> on router 1 as follow:
> 
> int fast 0/1
> no ip address 
> bridge-group 1
> 
> int fast 1/1
> no ip address 
> bridge-group 1
> 
> int bvi 1
> ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0
> !
> 
> but what i need to know does bridging will sacle will with load
> balancing ( per packet). and does this solution scale well?
> 
> thanks a lot
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