ECMP/multipath support

Martin Mares mj at ucw.cz
Fri Oct 1 17:14:46 CEST 2010


Hello!

> For us ECMP is important as we load balance connections to remote customer
> sites across different ISPs for redundancy and performance.

When doing that, please keep in mind that whenever the characteristics
(delay and throughput) of the lines are different, TCP congestion control
algorithms tend to fail miserably. This greatly limits the usefulness
of any multipath routing.

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Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj at ucw.cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
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