On 1/10/19 9:18 AM, Norman Henderson wrote:
> Thank you Tom. Can you clarify the significance of the numbers:
> e.g. provider a weight 1, provider b weight 10, provider c weight 100,
> which provider is preferred and what will be the proportional allocation
> of new flows?

New flows will be apportioned in the same proportions as the weights. It
is my understanding that the algorithm builds a list containing "weight"
number of entries for each provider. Flows are then allocated using a
round-robin approach. I don't know how this list is ordered.

-Tom
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