[nsp] ip load-sharing per-packet - cef accelerated ?

Cisco Geek Rotation cisco at peakpeak.com
Mon Mar 10 15:29:11 EST 2003


At 05:26 PM 3/10/2003 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:22:12PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > My understanding is that 'ip load-sharing per-packet' is CEF accelerated,
> > yes?
> >
> > Just trying to understand why some providers won't support per-packet CEF.
>
>         A good reason they tend to avoid it is it causes
>out of order packets which result in lower end-to-end throughput.
>
>         What you want is a srcIP/dstIP/srcPT/dstPT based balancing
>to be perfectly honest.  This will keep the same flows on the same
>circuit.
>
>         - Jared



Is this what ip cef per-destination does?

Chris




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