Hello, I have 2 paths from one branch office to the central office, the paths correspond to different ISP, in order to have redundancy.
One path has better bandwidth than the other, but not necessary less hop count. Is there any way, maybe using prefix lists and metric manipulation to force the use of the path with more bandwidth? And only in cases of failure of this path use the other one.
I’m using a RB 951Ui 2HnD in the branch office, the rest of the routers in the paths are not MK.
You can add metrics to adjust the RIP routes, it is not recommended due to the hop limit of 15 for RIP. What is the current hop count for your two routes? Have you thought of just changing to a different routing protocol?
Hi, currently I am using a test environment, I don’t know for sure the amount of hops for one of the ISP, anyway is not going to be more than 5 or 6 hops. And until now, both ISP advertise RIP in their intermediate routers, I know I could create gre tunnels to become independent for their routing, but first I wanted to try other ways without doing this, or balancing.
So my question is, using prefix lists and metric adding, I can change for example the metric of the route to the proxy server in the main office, but this will affect both paths right? which would be the way to advantage one path over the other?