Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jaeggli-v6ops-pmtud-ecmp-problem-00.txt

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Wed, 04 June 2014 21:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jaeggli-v6ops-pmtud-ecmp-problem-00.txt
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On 04/06/2014 21:32, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> My logic is the number of hash buckets doesn't matter - it's the number
> of paths, because if there are N paths, ~1/N of the traffic will go
> along each path regardless of the number of hash buckets.

on a matter of nits, the number of hash buckets matters greatly if it's too
small, and there is lots of hardware deployed out on the internet which
suffers from not enough hash buckets.

Nick