A housing authority wants unequal-cost load sharing across two WAN…

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A housing authority wants unequal-cost load sharing across two WAN links with different EIGRP metrics. Which condition is required for a secondary path to participate with variance?

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The secondary path must be a feasible successor (satisfy the feasibility condition) and fall within the configured variance multiplier of the successor’s metric. — Variance isn’t a free-for-all—the backup path still has to pass the feasible-successor test and sit inside your variance window. That keeps load-sharing loop-free. Variance of 1 or random looped paths won’t magically balance unequal WANs.

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Any looped path may be used as long as variance is set to 1.

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Variance installs backups only for OSPF intra-area routes redistributed into EIGRP.

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The secondary path needs a worse reported distance than the local feasible distance with no other checks.

A housing authority wants unequal-cost load sharing across two WAN links with different EIGRP metrics. Which condition is required for a secondary path to participate with variance?

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