Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 12:13:04 +0100 From: Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> To: Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ECMP and RADIX_MPATH Message-ID: <4FB78040.80301@rewt.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAEW%2BogZN2n4K-kMnL1jm0_rE2Yj%2Bhv=-JXqapjS9q44DWQPEHQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4FB4B682.4020606@zhegan.in> <1337276670.15253.2.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> <B143A8975061C446AD5E29742C531723CA7886@pwsvl-excmbx-05.internal.cacheflow.com> <CAEW%2BogZN2n4K-kMnL1jm0_rE2Yj%2Bhv=-JXqapjS9q44DWQPEHQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Sami Halabi wrote: > Hi, > what form of load balancing it makes? > is that apply to 8.3-R/S also? > > thanks, > Sami > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Li, Qing <qing.li@bluecoat.com> wrote: > >> It is not working properly in one case, of load balancing among physical >> interfaces having a single prefix, all are attached to the same physical >> link, and reaching a single first-hop router. >> >> The feature itself, of installing (/removing) multiple routing entries of >> varying >> first-hop to the same destination, and having traffic load balance among >> the installed routes work fine. >> >> --Qing >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >>> net@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Sean Bruno >>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:45 AM >>> To: Eugene M. Zheganin >>> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Re: ECMP and RADIX_MPATH >>> >>> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 01:27 -0700, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: >>>> The problem is that this topic lacks the documentation like totally. >>>> From the commit comments I understand that with RADIX_MPATH I can >>>> use >>>> more than one route towards the destination, but I really cannot find >>>> anywhere the answer to the question 'will some form of balancing, >>>> per-flow or per-packet take place'. >>> It appears that RADIX_MPATH is currently not working properly. See >>> this >>> months mail threads [stable-9] where we discussed it. >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2012-May/032331.html >>> >>> sean If you intend to use MPATH in production have a glance at this thread from last year for possible problems: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2011-December/030683.html Thanks, J
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