GLBP help.

DevilWAH

Ok I am missing some thing here.

Router(config-if)# glbp 10 weighting 110 lower 95 upper 105

what exactly do these different values mean?

I understand the weighting system in terms of load balancing packets. And how tracking objects can affect it.

This is how I under stand it.

The first value is the starting weight?

then if it falls below 95 it stops being an AVF, and does not start again until it raises above 105?

And depending on the actual weight the group has determines the amount of the traffic it deals with?

OK I think writing that out helped Cheers

DevilWAH

more to the point why am i seeing this ?? to mme it looks each router is seeing a different AVF as acctive?

Group members:
0004.9a93.dcc2 (192.168.1.4) local
000b.be57.b2c2 (192.168.1.5)
There are 2 forwarders (1 active)
Forwarder 1
State is Listen
MAC address is 0007.b400.0101 (learnt)
Owner ID is 000b.be57.b2c2
Time to live: 14396.064 sec (maximum 14400 sec)
Preemption enabled, min delay 30 sec
Active is 192.168.1.5 (primary), weighting 100 (expires in 10.264 sec)
Forwarder 2
State is Active
1 state change, last state change 00:14:07
MAC address is 0007.b400.0102 (default)
Owner ID is 0004.9a93.dcc2
Preemption enabled, min delay 30 sec
Active is local, weighting 100


Group members:
0004.9a93.dcc2 (192.168.1.4)
000b.be57.b2c2 (192.168.1.5) local
There are 2 forwarders (1 active)
Forwarder 1
State is Active
1 state change, last state change 00:37:20
MAC address is 0007.b400.0101 (default)
Owner ID is 000b.be57.b2c2
Redirection enabled
Preemption enabled, min delay 30 sec
Active is local, weighting 100
Forwarder 2
State is Listen
MAC address is 0007.b400.0102 (learnt)
Owner ID is 0004.9a93.dcc2
Redirection enabled, 599.248 sec remaining (maximum 600 sec)
Time to live: 14399.244 sec (maximum 14400 sec)
Preemption enabled, min delay 30 sec
Active is 192.168.1.4 (primary), weighting 100 (expires in 14.244 sec)

netn3rd

Q1. yes.

And to your second question, remember that each AVF has an associated virtual mac address. The AVG hands them out to hosts on a round-robin basis and each router with glbp configured is going to forward traffic received on its virtual mac address. So when you look at your show commands, you will see that for each AVF, one router will be Active and the others will be Listen. If you have 3 glbp routers, on R1, AVF1 might be active, but on R2 and R3, they would be listen, because only one router is forwarding traffic received on the segment by that virtual mac address at a time. If the Active router goes down, the ones that are listening notice and one of them takes over forwarding so that there's no interuption. If you have 3 routers on a segment doing glbp, you'll have 3 AVFs, 3 virtual mac addresses, and one active router for each avf.

DevilWAH

Oh course.. dumb me!!! I was reading it wrong..

I forgot that not only the AVG's, but the AVF's have a redundant router standing by..

Cheers for that