Hi Stuart, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-07-07, Sebastian Reitenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a question regarding equal-cost multipath routing. > > oh damn, forgot about that when I suggested mpath :( of course, > that's to prevent packets arriving out of order and destroying TCP > performance. > > > So I read the FAQ regarding the topic, and the mentioned RFC 2992. > > > > In the RFC I read: > > One method for determining which next-hop to use when routing with > > ECMP can be called hash-threshold. > > yes, that's what we do, see rtalloc_mpath() in sys/net/radix_mpath.c > Thanks again for the valuable input. I found that Linux has sth. implemented that they call: Linux TEQL (True Link Equalizer) http://etutorials.org/Networking/Integrated+cisco+and+unix+network+architectures/Chapter+8.
+Static+Routing+Concepts/Linux+TEQL+True+Link+Equalizer/ I haven't tested it yet, but it seems, this could do the trick for me. Sebastian
