❦ 16 février 2015 14:31 +0100, Lukas Tribus <luky...@hotmail.com> :
>> As I understand wikipedia - it is discouraged to use ECMP for >> loadbalancing.. "Load balancing by per-packet multipath routing is >> generally deprecated due to the impact of rapidly changing latency, >> packet reordering.." > > Nobody does per-packet multipathing anymore, in fact, when you use > ECMP for load-balancing traffic against different servers, per > packet load-balancing will break everything. > > Instead, network gear load-balances based on source/destination > ip hash or the 5-tuple (src/dst ip, ip protocoll, src/dst layer 4 > port). However, you may break PMTU discovery. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jaeggli-v6ops-pmtud-ecmp-problem-00 -- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
