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From: Damion de Soto <damion@snapgear.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] How to assign weight to multipath route
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:20:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404EC1CF.40603@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002201c404b8$4e6f5830$0100a8c0@newlife>

Hi,
> I could not find any documentation on the significant of
> the weight assignment to multipath route, example
It is here:
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298

> if I have two nexthop, one is 2M and another is 512k,
> so the first nexthop should have a weight of 4 and the
> other is weight 1 ?  
If you want the traffic balanced equally per-speed, yes.
It won't be exact though.

> Higher number meaning better bandwidth ?
Yes, A higher weighting means a higher preference.

regards,

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-10  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08  2:51 [LARTC] How to assign weight to multipath route Ming-Ching Tiew
2004-03-10  1:43 ` Ming-Ching Tiew
2004-03-10  7:20 ` Damion de Soto [this message]

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