Loadbalancing on catalyst 3750

Hi,
We hv a cisco 3750 switch configured with different departmental vlans.
Similarly we hv a vlan configured for WAN routers.
Wan will be setup in the near future.
There will be 2Nos. 1800 routers connecting to different service providers.
Routers will be running BGP.
What we want is to allow loadbalancing of traffic initiated from Lan to Internet.
i.e.
if we hv two subnets configured on cisco 3750 switch, we want one subnet to go to internet via router 1 and the other subnet should go thru router 2.
Clarifications:-
Can this be achecived using feature such as policy based routing.
what all is required on the cisco 3750 ..
can i get a sample config depicting this scenario.
Regards

Hi,
Policy-based routing is indeed what you need.
A sample config would be as follows:
interface VLAN10
! first local subnet
ip policy route-map ToWAN1
interface VLAN20
! second local subnet
ip policy route-map ToWAN2
route-map ToWAN1
match ip address 10
set ip next-hop
route-map ToWAN2
match ip address 20
set ip next-hop
access-list 10 permit
access-list 20 permit
Hope that helps - pls do remember to rate posts that help.
Paresh

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