ECMP/multipath support

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Dec 23 14:29:54 CET 2010


On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:46:02AM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > After a second look on that issue it seems that the code works properly
> > even in that case - en->lb, which is returned by calc_next_hop(),
> > is updated in link_back() before each call to calc_next_hop().
> > Therefore, for each connection it returns proper next hop address and
> > these are later composed to the multipath nexthop.
> 
> hmm, but is that the same thing?
> Don't you get one route per interface as opposed to two routes
> per interface?

I tested that - i got two nexthops in that case.

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