Ramki, When talking about LAG, is this the IEEE LAG (802.1ax, or the previous IEEE 802.3ad) running LACP, or something else? If it is L2 LAG, then how a L3 router can decide which component link in the LAG to send traffic.
Long-lived flow/short-lived flows, or long holding-time flows/short holding-time flows, are sort of relative concepts. Usually how 'longer' a flow compared to 'short lived' flows can be defined as a long lived flow. this might be too practical, as it could be different to different networks and traffic characteristics. Regards, Peng From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ramki Krishnan Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:43 PM To: Scott Bradner; Chris Liljenstolpe; Melinda Shore; [email protected] Cc: Sanjay Khanna Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] new IETF draft - large flow load-balancing All, http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-krishnan-opsawg-large-flow-load-balancing/ Best Practices for Optimal LAG/ECMP Component Link Utilization in Provider Backbone networks - Key ideas The suggested techniques in this draft for optimal LAG/ECMP component link utilization are meant to put forth a locally optimized solution, i.e. local in the sense of both measuring and optimizing for long-lived large flows at individual nodes in the network. This approach would not yield a globally optimal placement of a large, long-lived flow across several nodes in the network which some networks may desire/require. On the other hand, this may be adequate for some operators for the following reasons 1) Different links in the network experience different levels of utilization and, thus, a more "targeted" solution is needed for those few hot-spots in the network 2) Some networks may lack end-to-end visibility. Areas which need further discussion Standards-based data model for exporting long-lived large flow information from routers to a central management entity. Your comments/feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks, ramki From: ramki Krishnan Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:10 AM To: 'Scott Bradner'; 'Chris Liljenstolpe'; 'Melinda Shore' Cc: Sanjay Khanna; '[email protected]' Subject: new IETF draft - large flow load-balancing All, A new IETF draft on large flow load-balancing has been posted. We have very good feedback so far from Shane Amante; your comments would be much appreciated. http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-krishnan-opsawg-large-flow-load-balancing/ Thanks, ram
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