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Serious? A huge amount of traffic sent over the Internet is multipath due to ECMP. Hashing on the full src/dst ip and port tuple makes for stable path selection
by donavanm 14y ago
Serious? A huge amount of traffic sent over the Internet is multipath due to ECMP. Hashing on the full src/dst ip and port tuple makes for stable path selection.
WRT to the second point, failure cases are not that simple.
Edit: lets talk directly connected next hops, like a L2 domain. In this scenario what's the difference between "Anycast" and "ECMP"?