On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 03:42:28PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: > This appears to be intended to divide connections equally among five > ports, but (given that the probability applies only to the packets which > actually reach the rule) doesn't it actually divide them as 20%, 16%, > 12.8%, 10.24%, 40.96%? To get an (approximately) equal distribution I > think you'd need to use probabilities 20%, 25%, 33%, 50%.
Requirement was just to simplify existing config as is, but this is interesting point. > If using a port range were to implicitly divide connections equally > among those ports, this problem would go away. But that's not what your > patch does. Ok, will take a look and see what can be done. Thanks.