[j-nsp] static load-balancing route in a routing-instance

[Benny Sumitro]

Hi,

Even you are in forwarding instance configuration, you still need set
routing-options forwarding-table export load-balance-policy configuration in
the global..

Cheers,
Benny

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jens Brenner <jjbrennzz at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a flow-based load-balancing static route in a
> forwarding
> routing-instance with JunOS 9.3R4.4 on a M10i.
>
> I've tried just adding multiple next-hops to the route, but that
> doesn't work since
> there's no "set forwarding-options export" in the routing-instance tree to
> make
> JunOS export all the next-hops into the PFE. There is however a
> set forwarding-options load-balance with the 3 parameters indexed-next-hop,
> per-flow and per-prefix.
>
> Would the following config excerpt do what I want?
> routing-instances {
>  test {
>      instance-type forwarding;
>      routing-options {
>          static {
>              route 0.0.0.0/0 next-hop [ 1.2.3.1 1.2.3.2 1.2.3.3 ];
>          }
>      }
>      forwarding-options {
>          load-balance {
>              indexed-next-hop;
>              per-flow {
>                  hash-seed;
>              }
>          }
>      }
>  }
> }
>
> The JunOS docs say I should be able to configure the per-flow
> hash-seed as a number but the cli seems to disagree
>
>  "Beginning with JUNOS Release 9.3, you can enable router-specific
>  load balancing by configuring a unique, load balance hash value for
>  each PFE slot. [...]
>  To enable per-flow load balancing, you must include the hash-seed
>  number statement. The range that you can configure is 0 through
>  65,535. 0 is the default value; if no hash seed is configured, the
>  elected forwarding next hop would be the same as in previous
>  releases."
>
> jb at cf2-re0# set routing-instances test forwarding-options load-balance
> per-flow hash-seed 123
>
>                   ^
> syntax error.
>
> Thanks in advance, Jens
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