Solved: IP Cef load-sharing query

jigsaw2026 · ‎02-01-2007

I have a MLS with 2 links that advertise the default route. IP cef is enabled on a per-destination basis:

0.0.0.0/0, epoch 3, RIB, refcount 6, per-destination sharing

Why, then, when one of the links had a fault and was effecively down (not passing default traffic but still advertising the link), when I pinged a route that would take the default, e.g. 192.168.12.9, I got the following:

3750A#ping 192.168.12.9

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.12.9, timeout is 2 seconds:

!.!.!

This looks like per-packet sharing to me, or have I misunderstood?

Thanks, J

Richard Burts · ‎02-01-2007

You are seeing the difference between what IOS does for traffic being forwarded THROUGH the router and what IOS does with traffic generated BY the router. Traffic being forwarded through the router does perform per destination. But traffic being generated by the router (like your ping) will do per packet sharing.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

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Richard Burts · ‎02-01-2007

You are seeing the difference between what IOS does for traffic being forwarded THROUGH the router and what IOS does with traffic generated BY the router. Traffic being forwarded through the router does perform per destination. But traffic being generated by the router (like your ping) will do per packet sharing.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

jigsaw2026 · ‎02-01-2007

Ah OK, I didn't realise that.

Thank you, J

royalblues · ‎02-01-2007

Rick,

Would that be true for extended ping as well ?

Narayan

Richard Burts · ‎02-01-2007

Narayan

Anything generated by the router itself (including extended ping) is process switched and will packet by packet load share.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick