Re: CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH as alternative to EQL ?

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 28 May 1998 00:59:36 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 28 May 1998, Vinod G. Kulkarni wrote:
> How can we use MULTIPATH option for links which are not equal in capacity?

You can't. :-(

> Can starvation be taken care of? My current understanding is that since
> there is no mechanism to provide this info, it is not taken care of.

Nope. EQL suffers from this badly. :-(

> I feel that the routing should be dependent upon number of packets waiting
> to be sent on line on each of the ppp devices.

Yup. Hopefully the new 2.1.x loadbalancing queue will handle this in a
generic way for all devices... but where are the utilities to configure
it?

-Dan

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