>From: "Glenn M. McMahon" <mcmahon@bbn.com>
>To: "Keoseyan, Scott" <SAKeoseyan@broadwing.com>
>CC: "'Scot Donovan Blair'" <sblair@cerf.net>, cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
>Subject: RE: static routing
>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:17:45 -0500
>
>At 10:12 AM 11/19/1999 -0500, Keoseyan, Scott wrote:
> >Actually that "Gateway set to 0.0.0.0" is what you end up with when you
> >specify your default gateway as an interface in the IP route statement...
> >goofy, but true.
>
>Agreed.
>
> >What you propose will give him per-packet load balancing... but wouldn't
>it
> >just be better to turn on CEF and run multiple default route statements
> >pointing down each T1?
>
>I beg to differ. You will only get per-packet load balancing if you turn on
>CEF, what you will achieve by turning off high speed switching is
>source/destination load *sharing*. The router's interface will not cache a
>destination giving the possibility that the other equal cost paths could be
>used the next time someone needs to get to that same destination. The
>transmission itself will not be broken down on a packet by packet basis.
>
>For instance, say a user wants to go to www.microsoft.com, the router may
>choose Serial 1 as the path but it will keep that path for the entire
>conversation as opposed to shooting a packet down serial 1, next packet
>down serial 2 and so on.
>
The only possible issue here is that it can cause packets to arrive out of
order, and that may cause some problems with end hosts.
-rb
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