Re: iproute and 2.3 question

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 04:08:07 EST


grep@shorelink.com (George Bonser) writes:

> I noticed this remark in the ip-route cref document:
>
> equalize
>
> -- allow packet by packet randomization on multipath routes. Without this
> modifier route will be frozen to one selected nexthop, so that load
> splitting will occur only on per-flow base. equalize works only if the
> kernel is patched.
>
> Is it still true that a patch is needed or has this now been integrated
> into the kernel?

It has not been integrated, because equalization on the routing cache
layer does not work well (not fine grained enough or too slow)

-Andi

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