[c-nsp] Load balancing across 2 ADSL lines

[David Coulson]

James O'Farrell wrote:

> In regards to HSRP I have seen this;
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080094e90.shtml 
> which used 2 x instances of HSRP to load balance.

That seems like an ugly hack. GLBP does a better task, assuming you have
many hosts behind the routers.

> Unfortunately I am getting 2 ADSL lines from 2 Different ISP's so multilink and any routing trickery is out.

I handle this myself (Using DSL + Cable), by running outbound GRE
tunnels over IPSec, which I can then route traffic using either load
balancing, or OSPF.

David