Route Redistribution - RIP into EIGRP

[ErrolDC2]

Hi all. I was hoping to get some assistance with the above topic. Before I explain what I'm trying to do, I am linking an image of the network topology.

http://www.dfi-intl.com/FastPipe.jpg

Okay, from the image, you can see that I have two subnets, connected to each other via two paths.. one a T-1 and the other an 8mb SDSL link. The end goal is to try to achieve load balancing across both links without using a Tunnel interface, which I've done before and was sucessful until people on the 172.16.3.0 subnet had problems accessing my Exchange 2003 server on 172.16.101.0.

The 1760s both run EIGRP. The Nexcom routers do not. They can only run RIPv1|v2. My plan was to run RIP on the 1760's and redistribute the routes to EIGRP. In trying to do this, I'm running into alot of issues. Since the AD for eigrp is lower than RIP, RIP never installs the redundant route. Okay, so that doesn't work. I've tried to use RIP to load balance then - which requires that both paths have the same hop count. However, I'm not quite sure how to do this.

So, am I just spinning my wheels here?

 

[plshlpme]

i don't think you will get a good load balancing result here, but if your eigrp route would fail, your rip route would take over.

 

[ErrolDC2]

Thanks for the response.
That is something that I already know however. But thanks again!

 

[lambent]

I believe the hop count on both WAN links is the same which is one. So you can go ahead and try the RIP approach.

Btw are you running RIPv1 or RIPv2? I see that you are using a 24-bit mask on a class-B network so probably you may need RIPv2 instead.