Redundant links between subnets

Jun 20, 2006 22 Replies

Its not quite that simple, because each routing protocol can have additional conditions that must be met.

EIGRP certainly does and that condition being that neighbours MUST be addressed from the same subnet which you will not be true in your particular circumstance.

OSPF will require testing. OSPF may form an adjacency and allow LSA exchange. The real test is whether it will insert the learned LSA's into the main routing table given that the neighbours are on two different subnets. If it does you are homefree. You can then tune the hello timers as required.

As your stated objective is to make your connectivity more robust, keep the setup as simple.

And as Vince indicate what out for the MTU hit with GRE tunnels.

Also for GRE tunnels remebber to configure a static route for the tunnel destination address to prevent recursive lookups.

You can do GRE tunnels just for the hello packets BUT... 1- It is ugly and error prone. 2- Even if you get it right, last time I checked Cisco only updates static routes once per minute unless a link has failed hard, so your average recovery time will be over 30 seconds and be nowhere close to meeting your availability requirements.

Been there, done that, been burnt...

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