From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darshan Purohit Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:45:46 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Re: equal-cost multipath in 2.6.7 Message-Id: <5f1365705052708455f48a14e@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 Sending out this question again. On 5/24/05, Darshan Purohit 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. > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc