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Routing between Cisco 1721 and 2620

Dear All,

Let's assume that a company has 2 network segments, 192.168.1.0 & 192.168.50.0.. Initially, they had the 1721 for the routing, 192.168.50.0 to int fa0 (100BaseT) and 192.168.1.0 to eth0 (modular, 10BaseT). Now, users from the 192.168.1.0 segment are complaining that their access is crawling and there seems to be a bottleneck between the peak hours of 10am-12am & 2pm-4pm.

This company has an extra 2620 and my question now is assuming that I have 192.168.1.0 network on 1721 and 192.168.50.0 on the 2620 and connecting both routers through serial cable, how should I configure both routers? an example config would certainly help..

thanks and regards,
rex.

j3ggs

Hi rex,

Assuming that the connection between serial interfaces is a back to back serial cable (and the DCE end is the 2600), the configs would be similar too:

Cisco 1721:

interface fas0
description Connection to 192.168.1.0 network
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
no shut

interface serial 0
description Connection to 2620 router
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252
encapsulation hdlc
bandwidth 2048
no shut

ip route 192.168.50.0 255.255.255.0 10.1.1.2

Cisco 2620:

interface fas0/0
description Connection to 192.168.50.0 network
ip address 192.168.50.1 255.255.255.0
no shut

interface serial 0/0
description Connection to 1721 router
ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.252
encapsulation hdlc
bandwidth 2048
clock rate 2000000
no shut

ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 10.1.1.2

regards

j3ggs

PS Is this actually what you want to do though... Are you doing this to relieve the bottleneck?

rex68

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hey j3ggs..

yea you got that right.. and thank you for your quick response.

well, i did actually found a 100BaseT module for 1721, WIC-4ESW however it requires IOS ver 12.3XC while I have 12.3XA on my 1721. So, I thought I'd come up with another temp solution for now until the vendor gets back to me on that.

hmm, would you probably have a better suggestion before I close this?

cheers =)

REX

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rex68

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hey j3ggs,

yea i've checked the duplex settings and they seemed allright..

thanks for the fast switching and CEF tip,i'll try that out..

here's an extra 50 for your great assistance..

cheers,
REX