I have two 3845 routers with IOS version 12.4(2)T1. The T1s are connected to a private MPLS cloud used by my company for remote sites. On the LAN side of the routers, HSRP is employed with one of the routers, called RTR01 used as primary, with the other, RTR02 as secondary for failover. On the WAN side, the routers broadcast EIGRP for LAN-connected subnets. Originally, all traffic flowed in and out of RTR01's T1 and RTR02 had no load. EIGRP was setup so that RTR01 had a better metric for Static (we use heavy weighted static routes to our dialup router when the MPLS connection goes down at a remote site) as follows: On RTR01 router eigrp 100 redistribute static 1500 10 255 1 1500 On RTR02 router eigrp 100 redistribute static 1000 10 255 1 1500 In an attempt to balance traffic across the two T1s and the two routers, I set the metric to "1500 10 255 1 1500". Now after the change, all incoming traffic flows through the T1 on RTR01 and all outbound traffic flows on the T1 out RTR02. Unfortunately, I am losing bandwidth by not having both incoming and outgoing traffic across the two T1s and routers. What is the next step? I am a little lost as to why the network would work this way when two routes are being given. Should I try it without any metrics and hope that it balances properly? Thanks.
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15 years ago