Split flows across Domains

Tue Jan 24 18:09:10 UTC 2006

On 24-Jan-2006, at 13:05, Joe Abley wrote:

> On 24-Jan-2006, at 12:07, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
>
>> He said "via two different autonomous domains", which I took to mean
>> two upstreams... and my understanding is that (on ciscos anyway)
>> you're talking per-packet, not per-flow load balancing.
>
> If you can get two candidate routes for the same destination into  
> the FIB, then you'll get per-flow load balancing as long as CEF is  
> running, no?

(Substitute "other, similar, hash-based ECMP route selection schemes"  
for CEF, for routers not made by cisco. Apologies for my transient  
lapse into assumptions about vendor choice. And also for replying to  
my own mail. If anybody needs me, I'll be standing in the corner  
looking embarrassed.)