28 May
2004
28 May
'04
1:43 p.m.
On May 28, 6:34pm, Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
Wouldn't Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) solve this?
In some, or maybe even many, cases, yes, mostly, but what people really want is an AS-wide solution, covering any number of boxes, and preferably not depending on a pseudo-random selection between multiple paths. In particular, balancing outbound towards two or more different transits, one would want a more carefully configured and policed balancing act, not a "whatever hits some cache first and stays there for a while" choice. Best, -- Per