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From: Ramin Alidousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] many ways to do load balancing (or not?)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:00:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-103790895816295@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-103788125614081@msgid-missing>

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:11:23PM -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> > > d) OSPF. I read in the RFC that OSPF can do "load balancing", but I failed
> > > to understand how (no, I didn't read that RFC thoroughly, it's really high
> > > tech for me at this point). Does it use multipath routes to accomplish this?
> 
> Any thoughts on how OSPF does this?

All OSPF does is installing equal cost routes in the FIB. The actual
forwarding, making routing decision and/or load balancing has nothing
to do with the OSPF protocol.

Ramin
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-21 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-21 12:19 [LARTC] many ways to do load balancing (or not?) Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-21 17:46 ` Ashok N N
2002-11-21 19:11 ` Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-21 20:00 ` Ramin Alidousti [this message]
2002-11-21 22:20 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-21 22:55 ` Christoph Simon
2002-11-21 23:41 ` Christoph Simon
2002-11-22  0:06 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-22  0:24 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-22  1:17 ` Ashok N N
2002-11-22 12:28 ` Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-22 12:30 ` Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-22 12:39 ` Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-22 12:41 ` Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-22 13:00 ` Christoph Simon
2002-11-22 13:26 ` Vincent Jaussaud
2002-11-22 18:05 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-22 18:21 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-22 18:37 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-22 18:47 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2002-11-22 20:34 ` Andreas Hasenack
2002-11-25 13:20 ` Vincent Jaussaud

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