From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:20:47 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] How to assign weight to multipath route Message-Id: <404EC1CF.40603@snapgear.com> List-Id: References: <002201c404b8$4e6f5830$0100a8c0@newlife> In-Reply-To: <002201c404b8$4e6f5830$0100a8c0@newlife> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi, > I could not find any documentation on the significant of > the weight assignment to multipath route, example It is here: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298 > if I have two nexthop, one is 2M and another is 512k, > so the first nexthop should have a weight of 4 and the > other is weight 1 ? If you want the traffic balanced equally per-speed, yes. It won't be exact though. > Higher number meaning better bandwidth ? Yes, A higher weighting means a higher preference. regards, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear - A CyberGuard Company --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- Free Embedded Linux Distro at http://www.snapgear.org --- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/