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Re: [Banana] diff (banana load distribution, next-hop selection of multipath)

Mingui Zhang <zhangmingui@huawei.com> Sat, 04 February 2017 06:51 UTC

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From: Mingui Zhang <zhangmingui@huawei.com>
To: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, Margaret Cullen <margaretw42@gmail.com>
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Hi Joe, all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Touch [mailto:touch@isi.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2017 12:46 AM
> To: Margaret Cullen; Mingui Zhang
> Cc: banana@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Banana] diff (banana load distribution, next-hop selection of
> multipath)
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> So am I to understand that the "problem statement" is:
> 
>     - given two cooperating devices, how to manage a set of bonded links
> between them?
> 
> Isn't that what routers already do?

There is one key difference. What is routers nowadays doing is per-flow load balancing using hashing rather than flow splitting across this set of bonded links and then reordering. 

Thanks,
Mingui

> 
> (yes, I know that I've glossed over the fact that these "links" might be tunnels -
> because we have dozens of ways of doing that already)
> 
> Joe

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