[c-nsp] cisco 1721 & load sharing across unequal paths.

[ege iyioglu]

Hi there
We have a Cisco 1721 router with a serial interface and an ethernet 
interface.. You can find the run and ver info below.
The serial interface is connected to an ISP through a 1mbit leased line 
connection. The ethernet interface is connected to the inside network. We do 
NAT.
We'd like to add another ethernet interface and connect it to a wireless 
access point that will receive an 8mbit connection from another ISP. Both 
connections will provide access to the internet.
We also would like to implement load sharing and redundancy between those 2 
interfaces (the serial interface and the 2nd ethernet interface..) our 
router has 32 MB of ram. I'm planning to run IGRP or EIGRP with the 
maximum-paths 2 command.
First of all, do you think this is a feasible scenario that would provide 
load sharing and redundancy? And if it is, would our router's cpu and memory 
be enough for all of this or do we need an upgrade? I'm open to suggestions 
since this is the first time I will be doing this.

Deep Regards
Ege

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interface FastEthernet0
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interface Serial0
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interface Async5
 ip address 192.168.x.x 255.255.255.0
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ip classless
ip classless
no ip http server
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Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C1700 Software (C1700-SY-M), Version 12.2(8)YJ, EARLY DEPLOYMENT 
RELEAS E SOFTWARE (fc1) Synched to technology version 12.2(8.5)T TAC 
Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, 
Inc. Compiled Fri 21-Jun-02 15:38 by ealyon Image text-base: 0x80008124, 
data-base: 0x80B64A38

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(7r)XM1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
ROM: C1700 Software (C1700-SY-M), Version 12.2(8)YJ, EARLY DEPLOYMENT 
RELEASE SO FTWARE (fc1)

bilfenrtr uptime is 1 day, 2 hours, 31 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 16:27:54 UTC Fri Nov 5 2004
System image file is "flash:c1700-sy-mz.122-8.YJ.bin"

cisco 1721 (MPC860P) processor (revision 0x100) with 29492K/3276K bytes of 
memor y. Processor board ID FOC06330050 (1457551649), with hardware revision 
0000 MPC860P processor: part number 5, mask 2 Bridging software. X.25 
software, Version 3.0.0. 1 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) 1 
Serial(sync/async) network interface(s) 32K bytes of non-volatile 
configuration memory. 16384K bytes of processor board System flash 
(Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2102