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Subject: Re: forwarding when two rip defaults
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Randy Bush wrote:
> say i run routed and receive rip default from two routers, on the same
> local ether.  what is the forwarding?  i presume it's not smart enough
> to balance flows.  i hope not alternating packets.  clue, please?

Unless you have RADIX_MPATH in your kernel (with a recent FreeBSD, ie:
8.0) it'll choose one at random. Unless one route has a better metric.

Cheers,

Stef