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Hi All,
I have gone through this list carefully but have still not got an answer
to my question. I hope somebody will clear it.
I understand the concept of multipath in routing but dont know how the
'equalize' option affects routing. From what I read, multipath specifies a
list of interfaces (nexthops) to use for a given route. Whenever a route is
looked up in the FIB, each interface (nexthop) is used according the 'weight'
assigned to it during the route setup. By default the weights are assigned a
value of 1 which results in each of the interface being used approximately
equally.
I read that 'equalize' option is suppossed to distribute the load on a
per-packet basis. But the stock kernel does not seem to do it. I read the
equalize patch provided by Patrick McHardy, <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> at
http://trash.net/~kaber/. This does achieve the per-packet load-balancing.
I wanted to know what does the 'equalize' option do in the kernel without
this patch. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks,
Ashok
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