Load Balancing/Fault Tolerance

[amoisant]

I've been stuck with this for a while and hoping to get some insight.

I have 2 2600 routers with static routes to 2 different ISP's but the clients are using our PIX firewall which performs NAT as the default gateway. I would Like to have the outgoing traffic load balanced but I can't define 2 routes on the PIX, does any one have any way I can get around this?

 

[jgercken]

Yea, it can be done but you're either going to have to run BGP or perform NAT twice. Once on the PIX, then on whichever 2600 is getting that connection. You may have problems with protocols like IPSec which verify packet integrity.

Set up an standby router on the 2600's using the hot swap router protocol (HSRP). Set the PIX to use it as the gateway. Lookup 'standby' on Cisco's website.




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