RE: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Gironda, Andre
Does anybody know what are load balancing algorithms by most routers ? Where can I more information about this ? thanks Abhi oh hey, does anyone on this list know how to make cars go faster for most makes/models? heh, j/k ; you might want to check out rfc2991 and rfc2992. most routers

Re: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Layer 3 devices usually do a form a load balancing called equal cost forwarding. If you have two routes to a single prefix (say you have two physical links), and both have the same routing cost, packets may be load balanced across those

Re: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 10:50 AM 8/04/2002 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: load balanced across those links. Some mechanisms (for example Cisco CEF) can do this on a per-destination (flow-based) basis, to prevent packet reordering. I seem to remember fast switching was per-destination, and CEF was round

Re: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:58:46PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote: Paul's statement about CEF is interesting. It's probably the first public statement I've ever heard where someone was praising CEF. Usually discussions about CEF are accompanied by liberal amounts of swearing... I dunno;

Re: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Tony Tauber
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Chris Woodfield wrote: If by round-robin you mean by destination only, then this is correct. The term round-robin refers to a schedule which cycles through some number of things in a fixed order. A packet arrives and the router makes a forwarding decision. The things

Re: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Mark Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] another thing is you will see increased latency and jitter as your packets individually queue for cpu process time Thanks, that statement is significantly different than: 1) That is very deadly 2) If you want to crater your router, sure both

Load balancing in routers

2002-04-07 Thread abhijit bare
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