Load balancing in routers

Mon Apr 8 03:07:04 UTC 2002

Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> In order to do more advanced
> things, such as non-equal capacity load balancing, you need to have
> knowledge of the "load" on a link (or the servers in the case of 4-7 load
> balancers). This is something that "routers" have typically avoided, and
> I'm not aware of any router vendors who attempt to do load balancing based
> on the load of a link.
>

cisco's EIGRP can do it, but it is disalbed by default, and not recommended.