EIGRP Load Balancing across unequal paths
Hi - i have a quick question i hope you can help me with.
2 buildings, 2 links. Both 1G (mini Gbic) fibre handoffs. One is 1G bandwidth, the other is 155Mb.
If i use the bandwidth statement on the interface, will EIGRP do the rest? Or, do i need to employ the varience command?
I saw my cisco rep last week who seem'd think that EIGRP would handle it with the bandwidth statement on the interface, and discouraged me from using Varience.
Any help grately apperciated.
Cheers, James.
Hi James
If you make the bandwidths the same on each interface then you do not need variance. EIGRP should then see them as equal-cost paths, bearing in mind this is quite a high level answer as i do not know your topology.
If you want to keep the original bandwidths then you would need variance although i know some of the NetPro's here think variance is not particularly reliable and i have never used it in vengeance.
Be aware that other things rely on the bandwidth statement on the interface eg QOS so you may affect this as well.
HTH
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