Hello, [email protected] a écrit : > I have doubts about the management of the multipath with iproute2. > > In particular, do not understand how is the distrubution of traffic > between two gateways. > > Use this command > ip route add default scope global \ > nexthop via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 weight 1 \ > nexthop via 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 weight 1 > > Actually I see that some servers will reach from 192.168.1.1, others > from10.64.64.64, but I do not understand the logic that uses this command. > > Can you help me understand?
iproute multipath does not distribute traffic but routing cache entries. A routing cache entry is based on the source and destination addresses, and is used to route all packets matching these until it expires. It means that all communications from A to B will use the same path because they use the same routing cache entry. The distribution algorithm is a simple weighted round robin and does not take the amount of traffic on each path into account. The efficiency as a load balancing increases with the number of routing cache entries, i.e. the number of sources and/or destinations. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
