[f-nsp] XMR Load balancing

[Niels Bakker]

* boards188 at gmail.com (Jason Pope) [Sun 27 May 2007, 21:29 CEST]:
>Has anyone experienced problems with the XMR and load balancing?

[snip description of XMR load-balancing working]

I'm not sure I see anything wrong with your description.  Generally, 
load-balancing algorithms use src and dst IP addresses and TCP/UDP port 
numbers or ICMP sequence.  Not all equipment balances IPv6 and multicast 
traffic as nicely as most do IPv4.

Given a recent amount of entropy, hash-based load-balancing works quite 
well, in my experience.  The XMR can do per-packet too.  Just be aware 
that that might in some cases lead to packet reordering.  And stay away 
from "switch trunks" (support for which the XMR deprecates).


	-- Niels.

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