forwarding when two rip defaults

Claudio Jeker cjeker at diehard.n-r-g.com
Thu Sep 10 14:56:28 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:31:12AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> 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?
> > Unless you have RADIX_MPATH in your kernel (with a recent FreeBSD, ie:
> > 8.0) it'll choose one at random
> 
> aha!  that was the clue.  docs are a bit thin, still looking.  but thank
> you.
> 

I don't want to disrupt the party but I seriously doubt that routed
supports multipath routing. Routed's radix code is unable to handle
multipath routes.

-- 
:wq Claudio


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