[c-nsp] Load-balancing

[Julio Arruda]

Rodney,

I understand there is already some l4 hashing in the etherchannel side 
of the house ?
So the feature you mention would add L4 hashing into what specific 
platforms ? I assume it would be hardware dependent of course, but just 
wondering :-)..

Rodney Dunn wrote:
> 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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