State of resilient nexthop ECMP
Christopher Munz-Michielin
christopher at ve7alb.ca
Fri Feb 20 18:21:34 CET 2026
Hey all,
Wondering what the state of support for resilient ECMP with BIRD is?
I'm currently using BIRD to send traffic to a number of backend servers
using ECMP, but of course if one server leaves the group, the entire
hash is recalculated which results in clients being potentially directed
to a different server resulting in tcp resets.
I've been reading up on resilient nexthop which seems to solve this
issue, and is supported natively in FRR, but I can't find any
documentation about it's level of support in BIRD. Wondering if anyone
else has had experience with this technology and BIRD.
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