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* [email protected] (James) [Sat 23 Apr 2005, 23:10 CEST]: > With proliferation of high speed circuits and continuing trend of lower > cost of bandwidth, PPLB is becoming more obsolete for many people that > implemented it in the past. What is becoming more common is non-PPLB > based setup, such as flow or destination based load balancing, et al > to group high capacity circuits (i.e. when gig-e's aren't enough and > 10GbE is too much of a capex for an immediate upgrade). Exactly. Apparently it's little bother for router vendors to reuse the algorithms they wrote to properly support 802.3ad (link aggregation; the spec demands that `conversations' be kept on the same wire) for load balancing over multiple IP paths. Regards, -- Niels.
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