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From: gypsy <gypsy@iswest.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Re: equal-cost multipath in 2.6.7
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 20:57:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4298DBE4.AB567F3C@iswest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f1365705052708455f48a14e@mail.gmail.com>

Darshan Purohit wrote:
> 
> Sending out this question again.
> 
> On 5/24/05, Darshan Purohit <purohitdarshan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have question about multipath routing. I am running a 2.6.7 kernel (gentoo).
> > I have  a route with three nexthops on the same interface. I see a
> > different nexthop being picked for different destination addresses.
> > All is fine.
> >
> > Now if one of the nexthop goes down (arp entry times out and arp
> > request doesnt get a response), does it remove the nexthop from
> > contention and only use the remaining two from this point on ?  What
> > about the flows for which this nexthop was chosen in the recent past.
> > Would they move to a different nexthop ?
> >
> > Can anyone please point me to  implementation details about how a
> > nexthop is chosen and what is the algorithm used in case of multipath
> > routes and how to fine-tune the behaviour.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Darshan.

I suggest you ask Julian Anastasov:

http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/

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2005-05-27 15:45 [LARTC] Re: equal-cost multipath in 2.6.7 Darshan Purohit
2005-05-28 20:57 ` gypsy [this message]

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