Re: (PM) load balancing

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:17:05 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Mike Taylor wrote:

> However, I was wondering how the PM distributes the load. Sometimes it
> looks like fall-over, and at other times it looks like load sharing.

It is SPECIFICALLY round-robin, i.e. a packet goes out line 1, next
packet, line 2, next packet line 3, nect packet line 1, etc...

This means that IF you have different speed connections, your mileage can
degrade...

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