Hi Susan,

On 7/20/2012 1:30 PM, Susan Coulter wrote:
> Question:
> About 2 years ago I reported at the OFA Developers Workshop that the ecmp 
> routing within MinHop does not equally distribute routes among the multiple 
> paths.  That is, if 4 different ports at one hop all result in an equal 
> number of hops thru the rest of the fabric, the routes are not distributed 
> equally among those 4 ports/paths.
> 
> I was told there were 2 different approaches to solve this and patches had 
> been discussed/submitted and the community was deciding on a path forward.
> 
> Does anyone know the status of this?

The two approaches are:
1. Scatter ports (from Jared Carr)
2. Port shifting (from Al Chu)

and both have been upstream since April 2011.

-- Hal

> My apologies if the data is out there somewhere and I simply cannot find it.
> 
> Thanx in advance.
> 
> 
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