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To perform the equal and unequal load balancing in cisco environment which routing protocol is the best?

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Question added by shahzad Ahmad , Network/ Database Administrator , Instaclear (PARCO)
Date Posted: 2014/04/25
Shahin Syed
by Shahin Syed , IT Administrator, Training Officer , Al-Hamad Enterprises

EIGRP - Cisco Proprietary protocol is the only protocol that can do unequal load balancing, by using Variance command. But by default the variance of1 does equal cost load balancing. So if you want to do unequal cost load balancing you have to configure it manually.

Ali Syed
by Ali Syed , Head of I.T , Eastdelta

The only protocol that can support unequal cost load balancing is EIGRP. It is cisco proprietary. Other protocols will do equal load balancing. In terms of switching environment. GLBP is the only protocol to support redundancy and same time unequal load balancing. You can read my artical on EIGRP undrr cisco on my website. www.itmag.weebly.com

Mostafa Khamies Dakam
by Mostafa Khamies Dakam , Network Specialist , Libyan Fertilizer Company

EIGRP

Ahmed Mohamed Abdelaziz Osman
by Ahmed Mohamed Abdelaziz Osman , Teaching Assistant , Faculty of Computers and Information - Suez University

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol 

Muhammad Irfan
by Muhammad Irfan , Level II Enterprise Services Engineer , Machsol,Inc

Ofcourse EIGRP.

Equal load balancing is by default supported by EIGRP and OSPF both protocolos,

While when it comes to unequal load balancing, there is only one protocol EIGRP which supports its, by using the variance command and setting up the backup paths.

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