[c-nsp] Load-balancing

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Mon Jun 18 15:50:27 EDT 2007


144_(config-if)#ip load-sharing ?
  per-destination  Deterministic distribution
  per-packet       Random distribution

CEF default isn't per destination it's a per src/dst hash.

We've added the ability to hash on L4 ports too it's just
not shipping yet.

Rodney

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Hi there..
> 
> We have a number of sites that are layer3 load balanced using OSPF or static
> routing...
> 
> For example:
> 
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.1
> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.2
> 
> This doesn't provide for an equal bandwidth allocation although it works
> reasonable well...  with some of these connections now I'm looking for
> something that does "per packet" load balancing as some of these connections
> have one soure and one destination therefore the "per destination" doesn't
> work well....
> 
> What's the best route to take? (pardon the pun)
> 
> Paul
> 
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