[15508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can you explain why paths to same host diverge?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Feb 27 23:06:04 1998
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: avg@pluris.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 23:02:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <34F78A7D.1374ABF@pluris.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Feb 27, 98 07:54:37 pm
> > Current code from cisco in the branch supporting Cisco Express Forwarding
> > (CEF -- not publically available) that many NSPs are running has support
> > for multiple path selection based on a hash of the source and destination
> > address of a packet.
>
> When that code became available?
I believe sometime in March is being targetted. See your cisco representative
for details :-)
> Does anyone care to share experiences with that kind of load sharing in the
> real networks?
Well, we're using it in quite a few places and we're very happy with it.
If you read my e2e-i citation, you'd have noted that Curtis mentioned
that the T3 NSFnet NSSes did this and it was successful then...
--jhawk
