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Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison-00.txt (fwd)

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Thu, 09 January 2014 10:03 UTC

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Matthew,

thanks for presenting a concrete use case.

> It's actually not that convoluted; it allows you to segment
> your traffic flows across different upstream devices/interfaces
> without having to forklift upgrade your network infrastructure
> completely.  defaultA is actually an HSRP address that is
> master on routerA, backup on routerB; defaultB is master
> on routerB, backup on routerC; defaultC is master on
> routerC, backup on routerD; and defaultD is master
> on routerD, backup on routerA.  Each router takes
> care of 25% of the host load for the network that way.

can I paraphrase the problem?
"the problem is how to get hosts to load balance across multiple first-hop routers?"

or did I miss something?

cheers,
Ole

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