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In message <[email protected]>, Curtis Villamizar writes : > > The only real problem you can run into is if someone is boneheaded > enough to misconfigure their routing to do per prefix load splitting ^^^^^^^^^^ per packet > across WAN links or worse yet across providers. Again, such people > don't deserve to stay in business (since *all* TCP traffic from their network will suck), but they do exist. The common newbie mistake is > to configure per prefix load split among two default routes. Westnet > used to do this many years ago. Some small network in Florida did > this more recently. > > Curtis Minor correction but big difference in meaning. Per prefix is fine. It is per packet load split that causes trouble., Curtis
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