[j-nsp] load balancing 'per flow'

[nick at arc.net.my]

Thanks for the further clarification on this.

-nick


----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Verlouw <daniel at eu.tachyon.net>
Date: Friday, July 30, 2004 7:35 pm
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] load balancing 'per flow'

> > By default per-flow is used on Juniper boxes.
> 
> That's not true. By default JUNOS does not load balance at all. By 
> default it installs only one active route into the forwarding table.
> 
> > However a policy statement can be introduced to configure for 
> > per-packet. In this case below is a policy-statement is used to 
> > influence one BGP session (with multiple E1 links) for per-
> packet 
> > load-balancing, while the rest will be on a per-flow configuration.
> 
> Also not true.
> 
> The IP1 only can do load balancing per packet, the IP2 can only do 
> it 
> per flow (with configurable hash keys). The same policy statement 
> you 
> mention is used for both the IP1 and the IP2. On the IP1 this will 
> turn 
> on per packet load balancing. On the IP2 this will turn on per 
> flow 
> load balancing. See Daniel Rosen's comment as well.
> 
>