On 15/12/2015 12:41 μμ, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, d tbsky <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2015-12-14 23:02 GMT+08:00 Shaun Crampton <[email protected]>: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I found a few messages in the archive that mention multi path and ECMP >>>> but the website says it's TODO. I was just wondering what the status is? >>>> I'm interested in having BIRD configure the Linux routing table for ECMP, >>>> if possible. >>> >>> I have heard that bird 1.5 get some new functions about ecmp, but I can >>> not find out what are them. can anybody give some hint about what's new in >>> bird ecmp? >> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 06:38:49PM -0800, kris wrote: >> Part of the problem is the kernel. The other part is BGP multipath. I've >> offered to sponsor its development, but the maintainers of bird aren't >> interested. > > Hi > > IPv4 ECMP for OSPF and static routes is supported since long ago. > > IPv4 ECMP for RIP is supported since v1.5.0. > > IPv4 BGP multipath is supported in master branch in devel tree > (commit 8d9eef17713a9b38cd42bd59c4ce76c3ef6c2fc2). >
But, the kernel will balance the traffic to multiple next hops, right ? We use resilient ECMP on Arista( a close implementation mentioned in RFC2991, RFC2992) and was looking to simply run Bird on Linux to achieve the same. Cheers, Pavlos
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