RE: ECMP/multipath support

2010-10-04 Thread Andrew Lemin
Hi Martin, Yes you are quite right, we are aware that for it to work we need links of roughly equal latency and bandwidth etc, which they are. I.e. both slow and not much.. ;) Cheers, Andy. -Original Message- From: Martin Mares [mailto:m...@ucw.cz] Sent: 01 October 2010 16:15 To: Andre

RE: ECMP/multipath support

2010-10-04 Thread Andrew Lemin
Hi, >> I see two possibilities how to implement ECMP in BIRD: >> 1) adding special route type for a multipath route with multiple >> gw addresses. This wouldn't be hard, it is consistent with a way >> how Linux kernel handles multipath and works well with OSPF, but >> it will not allow to 'merge'

Re: ECMP/multipath support

2010-10-04 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Andrew Lemin wrote: > As long as multipath is implemented in the RIP protocol too, then go > for the first method as it is the proper place for it. We NEED ECMP in > RIP though. Please.. :) > The point I was trying to make is by adding the functionality to