From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: N N Ashok Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 06:18:17 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Multipath and equalize. Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have gone through this list carefully but have still not got an answer to my question. I hope somebody will clear it. I understand the concept of multipath in routing but dont know how the 'equalize' option affects routing. From what I read, multipath specifies a list of interfaces (nexthops) to use for a given route. Whenever a route is looked up in the FIB, each interface (nexthop) is used according the 'weight' assigned to it during the route setup. By default the weights are assigned a value of 1 which results in each of the interface being used approximately equally. I read that 'equalize' option is suppossed to distribute the load on a per-packet basis. But the stock kernel does not seem to do it. I read the equalize patch provided by Patrick McHardy, at http://trash.net/~kaber/. This does achieve the per-packet load-balancing. I wanted to know what does the 'equalize' option do in the kernel without this patch. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Ashok - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My public key: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver blackhole.pca.dfn.de DCB44F2E - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+j8apRhXpVty0Ty4RAsdmAKCNIO1SX+S0CqrLovmeNbUJwVFjqACglsvk j5niBK8qQnh7GKZ6/9ufte4=tbXx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/