Hello, i have a problem setting up equal cost multipath (ecmp) on one of my routers. This is my network: +------+ +---+ | | +---+ | | 192.168.2.0 | B |====| S | 192.168.1.0 +------+ | S | +------+ /==eth0===| | | W | +------+ | | | W |192.168.3.0 | |/ +------+ | I | | | | Host |===| I |=======eth2=| A | | T |====| http | | | | T | | |\ +------+ | C | | | +------+ | C | +------+ \==eth1===| | | H | +------+ | H | 192.168.2.4 | C |====| | +---+ | | +---+ +------+ Router A is the one not willing to do what he had been told to do! IP-Layer: network 1: 192.168.3.0/24 Host: eth0 192.168.3.2/24 network 192.168.3.0/24 Router_A: eth2 192.168.3.1/24 network 192.168.3.0/24 eth0 192.168.2.1/30 network 192.168.2.0/30 eth1 192.168.2.5/30 network 192.168.2.4/30 Router_B: eth0 192.168.2.6/30 network 192.168.2.4/30 eth1 192.168.1.1/24 network 192.168.1.0/24 Router_C: eth0 192.168.2.2/30 network 192.168.2.0/30 eth1 192.168.1.2/24 network 192.168.1.0/24 network 2: 192.168.1.0/24 http: eth0 192.168.1.3/24 network 192.168.1.0/24 Router_A:> ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:51:12:A6 inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.3 Mask:255.255.255.252 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:344 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:44594 (43.5 Kb) TX bytes:11270 (11.0 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:51:12:A4 inet addr:192.168.2.5 Bcast:192.168.2.7 Mask:255.255.255.252 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:8928 (8.7 Kb) TX bytes:16342 (15.9 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:E6:0D:9D inet addr:192.168.3.1 Bcast:192.168.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:17120 (16.7 Kb) TX bytes:34306 (33.5 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:14884 (14.5 Kb) TX bytes:14884 (14.5 Kb) Router_A: > ip route add default scope global equalize \ nexthop via 192.168.2.2 dev eth0 weight 1 \ nexthop via 192.168.2.130 dev eth1 weight 1 Router_A: > ip route show 192.168.2.0/30 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.4/30 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.5 192.168.3.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.3.1 default equalize nexthop via 192.168.2.2 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.2.6 dev eth1 weight 1 pervasive Settings seem to be ok... but all traffic from "Host" to "http" gets routed through gateway eth0 ;-( There is no balancing! What means "pervasive" after nexthop eth1 ? can someone comment that,please ? with regards Holger - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html