On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Tony Mumm wrote:
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> I'm not exactly sure if this is what you are referring to, but
> Junos does support ECMP.
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> It supports two methods. 1: If there is more than one path to a
> destination, it will randomly choose a next-hop and send all
> traffic that way.
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> 2: If you enable per packet load balancing, it spreads the
> traffic over the next-hops by a source-destination IP + source
> and destination port hashing mechanism. This should keep flows
> that ingress and egress the router from becoming out of order.
2. is only true if you have IP II. Internet Processor I will actually
do per-packet load sharing.
JunOS AFAIK support up to 16 ECMP next hops.
-dorian
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