[30229] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Solaris load balancing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitri Krioukov)
Wed Jul 19 20:24:59 2000
From: "Dmitri Krioukov" <dima@krioukov.net>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:37:37 -0400
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a (sub)set of possible solutions is:
1) write simple script performing
default gateway health checking (pinging)
and adding/removing default gateways
2) use gated
3) use znyx cards (http://www.znyx.com)
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> Subject: Solaris load balancing?
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> What are the various options for load balancing across multiple interfaces
> which are connected to distinct switches/routers on a Solaris box?
> FEC/trunking wont work because the connections are to difference switches.
> Multiple default routes in Solaris appear to behave badly when one of the
> dest's is down, such that the route is not removed from the routing table
> and traffic is still sent in that direction (subject to TCP behavior), and
> it's round-robin versus something more interesting like MAC-hasing.
>
> I think I can do equal cost multipath with two default routes in Gated as
> well, but I'm not sure if Gated is any smarter about removing an
> unreachable route. Will eqmp work if I'm injecting two defaults with OSPF?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> -Brian
