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Rip Load Balancing

The document discusses load balancing and equal cost load balancing. It defines load balancing as distributing data packets equally over connected routes. Equal cost load balancing distributes traffic over routes that have equal cost. The document provides an example of RIP load balancing over two routes with equal hop counts of 2 to a destination. It also shows the output of the traceroute command verifying the load is balanced across the three equal cost routes.

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Rip Load Balancing

The document discusses load balancing and equal cost load balancing. It defines load balancing as distributing data packets equally over connected routes. Equal cost load balancing distributes traffic over routes that have equal cost. The document provides an example of RIP load balancing over two routes with equal hop counts of 2 to a destination. It also shows the output of the traceroute command verifying the load is balanced across the three equal cost routes.

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1. WHAT IS LOAD BALANCING?

--the process of transferring the data packets equally over all connected routes is
called as load balancing

2. TYPES OF LOAD BALANCING


--load balancing are 2 types
i)equal cost load balancing
ii)un-equal cost load balancing

--all routing protocols support eual cost load balancing


--but EIGRP is the only one protocol which supports both eual cost and un-equal
cost load balancing

3.WHAT IS EQUAL COST LOAD BALANCING?


--distributing the traffic over all connected routes which are of eual cost is
called as equal cost load balancing
--incase of RIP it calculates the cost of route as per the hop count.
--thats why the routes which are having equal hop counts to reach the destination
RIP will balance the load on those routes only
EXAMPLE:-
R1=SOURCE
R6=DESTINATION
--to reach from R1 to R6 there are 3 routes
route1=R1-R2-R6=total hops=2
route2=R1-R3-R6=total hops=2
route3=R1-R4-R5-R6=total hops=3

--as per RIP it will balance the load on route1 and route2 because both are having
equal cost(hop count=2)
--this concept is called as equal cost load balancing

3. CONFIGURE EQUAL COST LOAD BALANCING(PACKET TRACER)


i)configure all routers(R1,R2,R3,R4,R5)
ii)configure routing on all routers
iii)vrify the load balancing
R1
a)R1#SH IP ROUTE RIP
R 14.0.0.0/8 [120/1] via 11.1.1.2, 00:00:24, Serial0/0
R 15.0.0.0/8 [120/1] via 12.1.1.2, 00:00:26, Serial0/1
R 16.0.0.0/8 [120/1] via 13.1.1.2, 00:00:11, Serial0/2
R 20.0.0.0/8 [120/2] via 12.1.1.2, 00:00:26, Serial0/1
[120/2] via 11.1.1.2, 00:00:24, Serial0/0
[120/2] via 13.1.1.2, 00:00:11, Serial0/2
OUTPUT:-
we can see to reach R5 there are 3 routes
i)via 12.1.1.2, Serial0/1
ii)via 11.1.1.2, Serial0/0
iii)via 13.1.1.2, Serial0/2

b)go to the pc1 and run the tracert command to chech through which way router is
forwarding the data packets
PC1
ping 20.1.1.2(ip of pc2)
output
data is forwarding through all routes. means router is balancing the load over all
routes

4. CONFIGURE NUMBER OF ROUTES FOR LOAD BALANCING(GNS)


--RIP support equal cost load balancing
--by default it can balance the load on 4 routes
r#show ip protocols
Maximum path: 4
--but we can configure maximum 32paths for load balancing(previously it was 6)
i)configure all routers
ii)configure RIP routing
iii)verify how many routes it is using for load balancing
R#show ip protocols
R 2.0.0.0/8 [120/1] via 12.1.1.2, 00:00:05, Serial1/1
[120/1] via 11.1.1.2, 00:00:02, Serial1/0

--we can see 2 routes

iv)configure maximum paths


R1#config t
R1(config)#router rip
R1(config-router)#version 2
R1(config-router)#maximum-paths 1
R1(config-router)#^Z
R1#sh ip route rip
R 2.0.0.0/8 [120/1] via 12.1.1.2, 00:00:11, Serial1/1
--we can see only one route for load balancing

v)now verify how many routes are using for load balancing
R1#sh ip protocols
Maximum path: 1

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