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Re: Split flows across Domains


From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:29:44 +0000 (GMT)



On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Joe Abley wrote:


On 24-Jan-2006, at 12:07, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:

He said "via two different autonomous domains", which I took to mean
two upstreams... and my understanding is that (on ciscos anyway)
you're talking per-packet, not per-flow load balancing.

If you can get two candidate routes for the same destination into the
FIB, then you'll get per-flow load balancing as long as CEF is
running, no?

that was my thought... and yes, it could get ugly for tcp services. Why
would you knowningly induce this complication?


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