[c-nsp] Per packet load balancing with low latency applications

Tony Varriale tvarriale at comcast.net
Thu Jan 15 10:43:16 EST 2009


Yes, age old question.

Use layer 2 technologies such as MLPPP.

You can use layer 3 technologies but you expose yourself to it not working. 
I've seen it work and not work.

tv
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William" <willay at gmail.com>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:25 AM
Subject: [c-nsp] Per packet load balancing with low latency applications


> Hello list,
>
> I've been looking at using per packet load balancing with a couple of
> serial links to use with a low latency market data application, in all
> the cisco docs they seem to mention how VoIP/Video applications may
> chuck their dummy out with packets arriving out of sequence. My
> question is what would cause the packets to arrive out of sequence?
> And has anyone been in my position before? what was the outcome?
>
> Per packet is going to be used because there will only be one machine
> on each end of the link talking to each other.
>
> Any more information/real life experiences on the matter are welcome.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> W
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