ECMP and RADIX_MPATH

[Sami Halabi]

Hi,
what form of load balancing it makes?
is that apply to 8.3-R/S also?

thanks,
Sami

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Li, Qing <qing.li at bluecoat.com> wrote:

> It is not working properly in one case, of load balancing among physical
> interfaces having a single prefix, all are attached to the same physical
> link, and reaching a single first-hop router.
>
> The feature itself, of installing (/removing) multiple routing entries of
> varying
> first-hop to the same destination, and having traffic load balance among
> the installed routes work fine.
>
> --Qing
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Sean Bruno
> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:45 AM
> > To: Eugene M. Zheganin
> > Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: ECMP and RADIX_MPATH
> >
> > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 01:27 -0700, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> > > The problem is that this topic lacks the documentation like totally.
> > >  From the commit comments I understand that with RADIX_MPATH I can
> > > use
> > > more than one route towards the destination, but I really cannot find
> > > anywhere the answer to the question 'will some form of balancing,
> > > per-flow or per-packet take place'.
> >
> > It appears that RADIX_MPATH is currently not working properly.  See
> > this
> > months mail threads [stable-9] where we discussed it.
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2012-May/032331.html
> >
> > sean
> >
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Sami Halabi
Information Systems Engineer
NMS Projects Expert