>On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
> > >
> > > How can I configure unequal cost load balance using OSPF?
> > >I have configured equal cost load balance and it is working fine. But,
> > >when I try to modify the costs of any link the load balance stop
> > >working. What is missing?
> > >
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> >
> >
> > OSPF does not support unequal-cost load balancing.
> >
> > What problem are you trying to solve? Per-packet load balancing can
> > indeed improve bandwidth utilization, but at the cost of increased
> > processor loads both on routers and end hosts.
>
>CEF per packet is not too bad on the processor. Its not worlds of
>difference doing per-packet vs. per-destination in CEF. I prefer CEF much
>more to something like say ebgp-multihop
CEF certainly is an improvement.
I was also thinking of host processor loading from per-packet, which
increases the probability of out-of-sequence packets.
Source-destination load balancing does get around this problem.
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>Brian Feeny, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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