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List:       quagga-dev
Subject:    [quagga-dev 4481] Re: Multipath with OSPF
From:       "Andrew J. Schorr" <aschorr () telemetry-investments ! com>
Date:       2006-11-15 15:59:12
Message-ID: 20061115155912.GA30641 () ti93 ! telemetry-investments ! com
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:44:37AM -0500, Len Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:06:08PM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> > Another approach is to patch your linux kernel to do round-robin ECMP
> > (search for the iproute2 'equalize' keyword).  But that has other
> > performance implications, I think.  From the "ip" man page:
> > 
> >        equalize
> >               allow packet by packet randomization on multipath routes.  With-
> >               out this modifier, the route will be frozen to one selected nex-
> >               thop,  so  that load splitting will only occur on per-flow base.
> >               equalize only works if the kernel is patched.
> > 
> > This would seem to be a much simpler solution for what you seem to want.
> 
> I have never found this patch.  Does anyone know where it is?  I have
> looked for it a number of times and never found it.

I guess this is the patch for 2.4:

   http://trash.net/~kaber/equalize/equalize_2.4.18.patch

But I'm not sure of the status in 2.6.  Does anybody know?

Regards,
Andy
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