RE: Variance [7:27882]

2001-11-30 Thread Gregg Malcolm
One note - I also wonder if 'no ip route-cache' might force variance to balance per packet if that's not already the default. Just curious. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=27893&t=27882 -- FAQ, list archives, and s

Re: Variance [7:27882]

2001-11-30 Thread Gaz
Hi Gregg/All, Would the variance have any effect on the actual load balancing in that way? I was under the impression that the variance would allow the lesser route to be added to the routing table, but after that the variance would have no effect on the number of packets sent over each link. Not

Re: Variance [7:27882]

2001-11-30 Thread Gaz
The information turned up quicker than I thought it might. The traffic is balanced based on the ratio of metrics. Seems a bit crude. If the ratio is not an integer value then the value is rounded down to an integer value. This suggests to me that if the metric of the lesser link is not at least t

Re: Variance [7:27882]

2001-12-01 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Good work, Gaz. Still, I wouldn't necessarily go too much farther in, for example, playing with the K values. Load balancing, on a per-hop basis, is a very limited solution. Paradoxically, by considering actual load (the K value), you may make it worse. Let's first look at the problem of load

RE: Variance [7:27882]

2001-12-01 Thread Gregg Malcolm
Gaz & Howard, Thanks for the input. I really appreciate it. I'm still a little curious. Based upon the link Gaz included, we know that variance is factor based. Consider the following. 3 paths; 56 Kbps, 128 Kbps and 256 Kbps. If we use variance of 2, the 128K and 256K paths will be used in a