From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luciano Ruete Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:37:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] 2.6.17 kernels and equalize patch Message-Id: <200701191237.54988.luciano@lugmen.org.ar> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Friday 19 January 2007 08:13, hhoxha wrote: > Hi > Everybody in the list > > I have a situation like this > > ------ (IP1) > linux |----eth0.40------ | > router | | | > box | (IP2) |------|Client Router ( Destiantion Net DNET) > > |----eth0.41------ | | /27 subnet > > ------ > > > I just want to balance the load of bandwidth per packet based between the > two vlan interfaces to Client Destination network > What i have done is : > > ////////// > bash#/sbin/ip route add equalize $DNET scope global nexthop via > $IP1 dev eth0.40 weight 1 nexthop via $IP2 dev eth0.41 > weight 1 > ///////// > bash#ip route show $DNET > > $DNET equalize > nexthop via $IP1 dev eth0.40 weight 1 > nexthop via $IP2 dev eth0.41 weight 1 > > But the traffic towards the $DNET does not seem equalized at all > It goes out allways to the same interface > > Is this a problem of route caching or the equalize patch needs to be > applied to 2.6.17 kernel , or then I am missing something ??? Equalize is a patch for 2.4, it never get's mainline, and there is no 2.6 version AFAIK.The iproute option is there, but without the patch does nothing. -- Luciano _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc