From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darshan Purohit Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:07:42 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] equal-cost multipath in 2.6.7 Message-Id: <5f13657050524120746b4da78@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc