[j-nsp] Anyone uses Adaptive Load Balancing?

Alex K. nsp.lists at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 02:08:36 EST 2017


Hello Serge and thank you.

Yes, there are indeed, not that many cases for ALB. That's why I turned to
community.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

בתאריך 18 בנוב' 2017 1:41 AM,‏ "serge vautour" <sergervautour at gmail.com>
כתב:

> Hello,
>
> We have been using it for a while. Works great. We have a few small links
> in a LAG bundle with a small number of fat flows over them. Without
> adaptive LAG the flows would sometimes hash on the same link. With adaptive
> LAG they are always split.
>
> I agree that there probably aren't many use cases for this. We ran into
> one and this solution worked.
>
> Serge
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Alex K. <nsp.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> A customer of mine, is looking forward for a technology able to load
>> balance a traffic across a LAG.
>>
>> The LAG in question comprised of Ethernet link and can grow from a few
>> links (4) to say, 20 - as required bandwidth grows. The gear is MX boxes.
>>
>> Since I'm familiar with adaptive load balancing but never used it myself,
>> I'll glad if someone here can share his/her experience using it? Can it
>> deliver pretty good load balancing across a LAG between routers? Is it
>> stable? Is there any caveats one should avoid? Anything else we should
>> consider, before deploying this thing into production? Feel free to share
>> (off list/on list) your experience and everything else you think relevant.
>>
>> Thank you.
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