I agree completely with Pekka. Tim
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:40:03PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Changming Liu wrote: > > As one of the top 3 firewall/NAT/IDP vendors, our experience with load > > sharing is very bad. > > For what it's worth, I've also argued stronlgy host against load > balancing. I'm copying the major concern below. > > ================== > Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 07:44:38 +0200 (EET) > From: Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: draft-ietf-ipv6-host-load-sharing-01 comments > > [...] > Fundamental objection > --------------------- > > The document assumes that it is always desirable to do > load-sharing with the equivalent routers. I don't agree with this > assumption. > > If the router's capacity is sufficient so that it can forward all the > traffic sent by its nodes, there is actually very little need for load > sharing. On the contrary -- sharing load between routers produces > difficult-to-debug scenarios when some destinations (which are distributed > to some routers) fail in mysterious ways while others work just fine. > > Due to that, I, as an operator, would not wish to enable load-sharing on > hosts except when I specifically require that kind of functionality. > > So, I'd propose that this document does not describe that the hosts MUST > share the load, but rather describes how the hosts MUST behave if they wish > to share the load -- and if turned on by default, require that there > MUST be a way to toggle load balancing off. A difficult issue to settle > might be whether to recommend (and if so, how strongly) to enable > load-sharing by default. > > ======================= > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
