From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Taylor Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:37:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Load Balance and SNAT problem. Message-Id: <468213BC.3090706@riverviewtech.net> List-Id: References: <7e47206b0706242007q487365d3gb7c12658b9669edd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7e47206b0706242007q487365d3gb7c12658b9669edd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On 6/26/2007 9:14 PM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > I remember that route balancing has an option to perform per packet > balancing and not per connection. If that were to work, then route cache > would not be used IMHO. Per packet balancing is normally not done as it > would break connections especially in NAT'ted scenario. To quote the man page for ip, it looks like the balancing is not per packet as you indicate, but rather per-flow. """equalize - allow packet by packet randomization on multipath routes. Without this modifier, the route will be frozen to one selected nexthop, so that load splitting will only occur on per-flow base. equalize only works if the kernel is patched.""" Grant. . . . _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc