At least on most chips today, they use modulo-N hashing, which results in potentially breaking existing connections, see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2992 htt

At least on most chips today, they use modulo-N hashing, which results in potentially breaking existing connections, see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2992 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2992 The reason that this isn't really a problem on the internet, is because you're typically not using ECMP, and just plain anycast.