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From: Darshan Purohit <purohitdarshan@gmail.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [LARTC] Re: equal-cost multipath in 2.6.7
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:45:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f1365705052708455f48a14e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Sending out this question again. 

On 5/24/05, Darshan Purohit <purohitdarshan@gmail.com> 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.
>
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2005-05-27 15:45 Darshan Purohit [this message]
2005-05-28 20:57 ` [LARTC] Re: equal-cost multipath in 2.6.7 gypsy

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