Load-balancing

AT Matik asstec at matik.com.br
Wed Apr 12 22:42:33 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:13, Patrick Tracanelli wrote:
>
> Also, what about some sort of algorith more similar to "plr" for "prob"
> action? As my understanding prob is really a probability, which does not
> mean say 33% of the packets will match (while plr says it will match -
> and drop the packet), it means 33% of probability, right? This would be
> different of 33% of matching rate. Lets think of a "rate" option for
> "matching rate", a
>

"probably" not a good choice to generate packet-loss when trying kind of load 
balance

prob generates random rate (fwd in this case)
plr generates random packet _loss_ rate 

I think the latter option create artificial kind of bw limit

João







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