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From: N N Ashok <nalkunda@cse.msu.edu>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] default route
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:43:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-106756224522705@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-106749406611702@msgid-missing>

On Thursday 30 October 2003 02:52 am, Vadiraj C S scrawled:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Damion de Soto wrote:
> > getting lost. anyone comment on this ?
> >
> > If you use the ip route tool to created multiple weighted or equalized
> > default routes, you then use source-based routing to make sure that the
> > traffic goes back out the same route it came in on.
> > (unless you're trying to be tricky with asymetrical routing)
>
>   I tried this, the routes get cached so most of the time the packets
>   leave from the route they came in, but you can have two routes and
>   there is no packet loss.
>
> Vadiraj C S
>

hi,
Having multiple equal cost routes just ensures that the traffic is balanced 
per-route, i.e.  every time a route is looked up in the FIB table, the 
load-balancing comes into picture. but once a route has been established for 
a destination, it is cached and all packets to that destination go via that 
route. However, if you install the nano patch 
(http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nano.txt), the the load-balancing is done on a 
per-packet basis. so for every packet, leaving the system (either forwarded 
or output), the FIB table is consulted and the packets are balanced on the 
multiple equal-cost paths provided you have 'equalize' keyword for that 
multiple equal-cost route.

current i am actually implementing load-balancing (outgoing) on a per-session 
and current-bandwidth-usage basis.

hope that helps.
ashok

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-31  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-30  5:56 [LARTC] default route Payal Rathod
2003-10-30  6:29 ` Damion de Soto
2003-10-30  7:25 ` Payal Rathod
2003-10-30  7:49 ` Vadiraj C S
2003-10-30  7:54 ` Vadiraj C S
2003-10-30  8:08 ` Vadiraj C S
2003-10-30  8:40 ` Payal Rathod
2003-10-31  0:43 ` N N Ashok [this message]

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