forwarding when two rip defaults

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Thu Sep 10 05:35:45 UTC 2009


>> say i run routed and receive rip default from two routers, on the same
>> local ether.  what is the forwarding?  i presume it's not smart enough
>> to balance flows.  i hope not alternating packets.  clue, please?
> I can't speak for routed

routed is just the routing protocol used to garner the routes installed
in the fib.  so it should not be of concern.

> the base system, given two default routes would use a hashing schemem
> to send data to both.  more details depend on what options you have
> turned on.

is there a doc page somewhere?

thanks.

randy


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