Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> writes:

    set interfaces ae2 aggregated-ether-options load-balance per-packet

I ran per-packet on a Juniper LAG 10 years ago. It produced 100% perfect traffic distribution. But the reordering was insane, and the applications could not tolerate it.

Unfortunately that is not strict round-robin load balancing. I do not know about any equipment that offers actual round-robin load-balancing. Juniper's solution will cause way too much packet reordering for TCP to handle. I am arguing that strict round-robin load balancing will function better than hash-based in a lot of real-world scenarios.