[c-nsp] BGP Balanced

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Wed Sep 15 15:44:30 EDT 2004


Hi,

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:01:40PM +0200, Andre Beck wrote:
> based, seldom more complicated. Maybe that's different on the
> flagship platforms like the 6509 with current SUPs, but it's often
> surprising people on most "normal" platforms that a channel (link
> aggregate) doesn't balance a single flow at all.

Ethernet infrastructure MUST NOT reorder packets (non-IP protocols 
*really* get upset if you do that) - so you can't do any sort of 
"per-packet" load sharing for a given <src,dst> pair.

gert
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