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Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted

  • From: Colm MacCarthaigh
  • Date: Mon Jun 04 02:11:39 2007

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:53:52AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > ipv6 load balancers exist, one's current load balancer is/may probably
> > not be up to the task.
> 
> my favourite load balancer is OSPF ECMP, since there are no extra boxes,
> just the routers and switches and hosts i'd have to have anyway.
> 
> quagga ospf6d works great, and currently lacks only a health check API.

If you're load-balancing N nodes, and 1 node dies, the distribution hash
is re-calced and TCP sessions to all N are terminated simultaneously. 

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: [email protected]