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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:42:25 -0300
From:      AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br>
To:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Load-balancing
Message-ID:  <200604121942.25737.asstec@matik.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <443D7B71.5070004@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
References:  <20060411092932.42148fd8@giboia> <20060412214619.GT9364@elvis.mu.org> <443D7B71.5070004@freebsdbrasil.com.br>

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On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:13, Patrick Tracanelli wrote:
>
> Also, what about some sort of algorith more similar to "plr" for "prob"
> action? As my understanding prob is really a probability, which does not
> mean say 33% of the packets will match (while plr says it will match -
> and drop the packet), it means 33% of probability, right? This would be
> different of 33% of matching rate. Lets think of a "rate" option for
> "matching rate", a
>

"probably" not a good choice to generate packet-loss when trying kind of lo=
ad=20
balance

prob generates random rate (fwd in this case)
plr generates random packet _loss_ rate=20

I think the latter option create artificial kind of bw limit

Jo=E3o







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