The APX8000 is partitioned into 4 quadrants, I believe it automatically tries to load balance between them. (Call routes / packet switching), my setup is 4 T3s, 4 ether-3-cards, rest filled with madd-2 cards, only 2 of my ethernet cards actually route packets for connections, and it is split RX / TX. The other ethernet cards are useless, besides the fact i can telnet/ssh to them. OSPF works fine for me in this setup, however, I would only enable it on 1 interface. I tried doing the below years ago, and had no luck, even Lucent Tech support couldn't find an answer. Sigh, Ascend Communications wouldve addressed this issue better. can you paste a 'show' && 'netstat -rn' ? thank you, Bryan D. Black Vice President Information Systems Triton Technologies, Inc. Kevin Carey wrote: > Good day, > > I have an APX8000 running TAOS 9.0.4. It has 2 Ethernet cards (Slot 3 > and 18). > > I would like to have the Ethernet load balanced across the multiple > Ethernet slots (Incoming and Outgoing). Thus far, I have been unable > to do so. I have both interfaces within the same subnet. OSPF is > running on both slots. I have placed a static route in place, and was > able to have traffic split across both cards outgoing. I am only able > to have the traffic come in across the Ethernet card in slot 3 however. > > I also notice, when I do ‘ospf rtab’ that all of the WAN (Dialup > Connections) connections have ‘RTE FIX’ beside them, implying static > routes to these connections and they are all statically coming thru > the Ethernet card in slot 3. Thus far, I have been unable to determine > where this is set, so as to have it changed to be an OSPF entry, as it > may very well be the reason incoming traffic for my dialup traffic > only comes thru slot 3. When slot 3 is not connected, my clients are > unable to browse, they lose connectivity. > > In the ip-interface profiles for the 2 slots I have OSPF enabled with > similar preferences. ‘ospf inft’ results: > > Ifc Address Phys Assoc. Area Type State #nbrs #adjs DInt > > x.x.x.x ie0-0-0 0.0.0.1 Brdcst DR 0 0 40 > > x.x.x.x ie1-3-1 0.0.0.1 Brdcst Other 3 2 40 > > x.x.x.x ie1-18-1 0.0.0.1 Brdcst Other 3 2 40 > > From other routers within my network, the OSPF is being advertised > from the ie-1-18, but as mentioned, no traffic is being routed inbound > on that interface. > > I certainly look forward to any assistance/suggestions which may be > provided. > > Kevin Carey > > Network Operations > > InfoChannel Ltd. > > //"The ////Caribbean////'s Premier Communication Services > Provider/Enabler"// > > www.infochan.com <http://www.infochan.com> > > (876) 978-2960 x233 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >rte-ascend mailing list >rte-ascend at lists.real-time.com >http://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/rte-ascend > >