I have two Cisco wireless network bridges that I need to connect together.
The first is a 2.4GHz Wireless N Bridge which supports up to 144Mbps and the second is a Cisco 5GHz wireless N bridge which supports up to 300Mbps.
I want to run both bridges between my two buildings. I have two Cisco 2911 routers sitting on either end with each bridge plugged into the router.
What I want to do is load balance between the two bridges and I am wondering what the best method of doing this is?
Thanks
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dylan_leggatt
8/22/2022 - Mon
dylan_leggatt
I would configure eigrp on both routers, configure the bandwidth of the 2 interfaces going to each bridge to match the available bandwidth and then set the variance in eigrp to 3.
That should then load balance over the unequal links
mark_06
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What about using CEF as well? If so should it be per packet or per destination?
dylan_leggatt
CEF as far as I know doesn't do unequal loadbalancing and your 2 links are not the same.
Per destination load balancing is safer than per packet. You don't get as good a balance of load between the links but traffic like voice traffic can give you issues over per packet load balancing if the packets start arriving out of order over the 2 links
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That should then load balance over the unequal links