Em Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:46:56PM -0500, Ashok N N escreveu: > i believe that SNAT is for connections initiated from outside world towards > the internal network. and this would be reverse of what is intended here, That's DNAT. > i'm still looking at the code here. AFAIK, the when you have multipath option > set, then when looking up for a route to an address, among the multiple equal > cost paths, one is selected according to some criteria (i read random > somewhere in the kernel but am not able to locate it now). but once the route This criteria I would like to understand. > route. so it is kind of a route-based load-balancing. Considering that the route cache is 60s by default, this should work I guess. I'm setting up such a setup for testing. > i read in one of the threads that 'equalize' causes per-packet load balancing, > i.e looks up the route for each packet. but i am doubtful about the > performance when each packet causes a route-lookup in the FIB. > (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0107.3/0028.html) Interesting, so 'equalize' bypasses the cache, that's about it? So we only need to know the criteria with which the route is choosed in a multipath route. Packet count? Round robin? > > d) OSPF. I read in the RFC that OSPF can do "load balancing", but I failed > > to understand how (no, I didn't read that RFC thoroughly, it's really high > > tech for me at this point). Does it use multipath routes to accomplish this? Any thoughts on how OSPF does this? Thanks for your input _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
