load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer

Fri Mar 14 18:45:38 UTC 2008

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> On 14-Mar-2008, at 12:42, Joe Shen wrote:
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>>   Is there any way to solve problem above?
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> The approach described in
> <http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/abley.cluster.html
>  > would probably work, so long as the routers choosing between the
> ECMP routes are able to make route selections per flow, and not just
> per packet (e.g. "ip cef" on a cisco).
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> Tony Kapela did a lightning talk a few meetings ago about another
> cisco-specific approach which used some kind of SLA-measuring cisco
> feature to do the same thing without needing to run a routing protocol
> on a server. I can't seem to find a link to the details, but if
> someone else knows where it is it'd be good to know.

http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0710/presentations/Kapela-lightning.pdf

-John