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Re: multipath routing doesn't work with netlink

To: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: multipath routing doesn't work with netlink
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:37:23 +0100
Cc: netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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There are two kinds of multipath routing in the kernel (which are differently
implemented in the kernel and do different things): 

- default route failover. You configured it. It doesn't do any load balancing,
but when your default route stops working it'll eventually try the other
one. You configured that.

- real multipath routing.
It is configured by setting multiple nexthops to a single route
(ip route add ... nexthop ... )
The kernel will do load balancing by route (=srcip/dstip/tos tripple)

-Andi


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