[c-nsp] Advice on Core Swithes / Routers

[Alexander Clouter]

Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> SLB on the 6500 (as opposed to with an ACE module) has caveats; it's 
> slow (as initial packets are punted to CPU) and Cisco don't really 
> support it AFAICT.
>
SLB on our 6500 gave us more trouble than good; it would randomly stop 
working and was a right pain to diagnose (is any load-balancing 
reliable, compliant and easy to diagnose?).

I moved to anycast'ing which has worked out far better for us and is a 
far simplier system to understand:

http://www.digriz.org.uk/ha-ospf-anycast

Cheers

-- 
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.