RE: load-balancing

[Jim.Bound@nokia.com]

> I assume that's what *some* (perhaps even most) customers want.  But
> not all customers.  For example, the universities that are connected
> to a research-and-education network (e.g., one of the 
> Internet 2 backbones)
> and a "commodity ISP" have policy reasons (AUPs) for wanting 
> some traffic
> to go one way and some the other; load-balancing is a 
> non-goal for them. 
> (In fact, in that scenario, there's often a big difference in 
> the size of
> the two pipes, and a 50/50 split of traffic is the last thing 
> they want.)

Agreed. But this would be tunable.

Also load balancing can apply to which CPU processor moves the packet. The
packets will do the 50/50 split, but it may use a different CPU.  In the
case the load balancing is not involved with the end-to-end packet direction
only where it is done.  This is far different than traffic sharing.

Now which are we talking about?

/jim

/jim