Re: many ways to do load balancing (or not?)

Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:11:23PM -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> > > 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?

All OSPF does is installing equal cost routes in the FIB. The actual
forwarding, making routing decision and/or load balancing has nothing
to do with the OSPF protocol.

Ramin
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