From: Les Hardin (hardinl@xxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 22:07:38 GMT-3
Now THAT'S funny! Who said networking geeks don't have a sense of humor?
LOL,
Les
At 02:01 AM 2/13/2001 +0000, David Ankers wrote:
>I'm still trying to figure out where my wife got 100lbs of apples from, in
>fact as I'm not married, where did I got a wife from. Furthermore if she
>wanted to take them to a farmer market, she can carry the lot herself as 1,
>It was her idea in the first place and 2, I've got to study so I don't have
>time to be carrying apples around, maybe if I pass the lab I can get a job
>with more money so we can give up the fruit selling business.
>
>On Monday 12 February 2001 22:27, Dan wrote:
> > Although some might argue that it is redundant (sometimes redundancy is
> > good
> >
> > :-)) I always like to specify equal or unequal so as not to create
> >
> > confusion.
> >
> > Dan Pontrelli
> > Customer Installation Engineer - Verio NYC
> > CCNP, MCSE, CNA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael E. Flannagan" <mflannag@cisco.com>
> > To: "Chuck Larrieu" <chuck@cl.cncdsl.com>
> > Cc: "Yurchenko, Michael" <michael.yurchenko@verizon.com>; "'Tariq Sharif'"
> > <tariq_sharif@btinternet.com>; "Ccielab@Groupstudy. Com"
> > <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 3:53 PM
> > Subject: RE: To Load Share or to Load Balance?
> >
> > > EIGRP, using variance, over a 56k and a T1 would be (in my mind) load
> > > sharing. Over two T1s would be load balancing.
> > >
> > > Just my $.02
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > C i s c o S y s t e m s Michael E. Flannagan
> > >
> > > | | Network Consulting Engineer
> > > | |
> > > ||| ||| Research Triangle Park, NC
> > > ||| |||
> > > ||||||| ||||||| (919) 392-4550
> > >
> > > .:|||||||||||:.:|||||||||||:. mflannag@cisco.com
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Chuck Larrieu wrote:
> > > > Ah ah Mike, you don't escape so easily.... ;->
> > > >
> > > > Are you using the approach that load sharing = sending packets out a
> >
> > number
> >
> > > > of interfaces, or a number of routers ( "paths" ) in any ratio, as
> >
> > opposed
> >
> > > > to "load balancing" = sending an equal number of packets out each
> >
> > available
> >
> > > > path / interface / router?
> > > >
> > > > Or visa versa?
> > > >
> > > > If I have 100 lbs. of apples to carry to the local farmer's market, and
> >
> > I
> >
> > > > give 10 lbs. to my wife to carry, is that load balancing or load
> >
> > sharing?
> >
> > > > In general, my experience is that these terms are used interchangeably
> >
> > by a
> >
> > > > lot of folks. One must delve a bit deeper to determine what the real
> > > > question is and what the real problem to be solved is, as opposed to
> > > > the speaker's perception of these things.
> > > >
> > > > Chuck
> > > > Words I dread hearing from a customer: I want to dual home with two
> >
> > ISP's,
> >
> > > > and load balance across the internet"
> > > > Shoot me now and put me out of my misery.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > > > Yurchenko, Michael
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 11:59 AM
> > > > To: 'Tariq Sharif'; Ccielab@Groupstudy. Com
> > > > Subject: RE: To Load Share or to Load Balance?
> > > >
> > > > Load balancing is a subset of load sharing, where the shares of the
> > > > load
> >
> > are
> >
> > > > equal.
> > > >
> > > > Michael Yurchenko
> > > > CCIE# 6695, CCDP, CCNP ATM Specialist, MCSE
> > > > Customer Support Engineer - 2
> > > > michael.yurchenko@verizon.com
> > > > 610-407-2154
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Tariq Sharif [mailto:tariq_sharif@btinternet.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:00 PM
> > > > To: Ccielab@Groupstudy. Com
> > > > Subject: To Load Share or to Load Balance?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Anyone enlighten me with the differences between these pls?
> > > >
> > > > any reference material will be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks & regards.
> > > >
> > > > Tariq Sharif
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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