On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Dorian R. Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 04:55:13PM -0900, Todd Nagengast - Systems Wrangler wrote:
> > I can't speak for any of the other methods with empirical data, but I can
> > tell you that for a true split the bits bandwidth type of load sharing,
> > eBGP doesn't seem to do a very good job. We're currently trying to do it
> > with UUnet over two FR T1s. The routes will get cached on the FR subinterface
> > and then all traffic for the cached route will go out that interface.
>
> A mistake often made in looking at various way to load share/balance
> parallel links is that people assume that it's a routing protocol feature.
We're sadly well aware that it's not a feature. Unfortunately, when you
have limited means, you must try do things nature never intended.
> The per-packet load sharing done in D/CEF is probably what folks are
> looking for, but it has a draw back in the sense that it can cause out of
> order packet arrivals and compromise the end to end performance.
Do you have any links to some specific documentation on this?
Thanks,
Todd
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