Performance Analysis of Routing Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol Load Balancing for IPv6

The increasing request of IP Address allocation makes the availability of available IP Address much reduced, especially the allocation of IPv4 provision. To handle IP Addresses request, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) an internet protocols have been adopted as the next-generation Internet technology. Exchange of IP Address in a computer network can not be separated from the existence of routing protocols. Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, also known as EIGRP developed use IPv6 in EIGRP for IPv6 (EIGRPv6). Cisco routers are able to facilitate EIGRP for IPv6 by supporting load balancing features to share network load equally. The load balancing test results on EIGRP for IPv6 networks are able to produce packet loss with an average time obtained when a disconnect occurs between one neighbor of 2.6 Packets with average time of 2.8ms with a hello packet to a neighbor of 12, 2 ms. The application of load balancing is able to do backups in the network if there are problems on the network.