>>Are they one on the same box or is it two different router that
>>automatically drop to a redundancy ? Thanks.
>>-- Joel
i didn't get your e-mail address joel, so i'm having to repond
here...
they are 2 physically seperate boxes (referring to cisco's hot standby
protocol). i'm not sure if they do anything like load balancing, or
if the split between the 2 is more static. however, i do know that
when one fails, the other one picks up it's load. i'm working from 4
month old memory here, so this stuff is a little foggy.... but it
seems like the 2 routers are seen (ip-wise) as 1 virtual router. i
guess each router knows the other's routing table, but just ignores
that portion as long as the other router is functional. if they DIDN'T
know each others table, and 1 of the routers failed, there'd be a
lag while it updated, and i remember no perceptible lag when we
tested these....
chris cull
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