Re: backup load

From: Muhamamd Durrani (dan_schaw@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 01:43:31 GMT-3


I guess I am thinking the same way ....

Kicking of backup and tearing it down is both
accumulated load on both .

--- Ram Shummoogum <rshummoo@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi ALL:
>
> Backup load 50 10
>
>
>
> 50% of the Doc and scenarios I am reading defines
> the 10 as the %load of
> the combined interfaces that will deactivate the
> backup link and the other
> 50% says that 10 is only calculated for the load of
> the primary link.
>
>
> MY VERSION:
> Example:
>
> Primary Line is 100Kpbs
> Backup Line is 100Kpbs
>
> Backup load 50 10
>
> My understanding: When Primary line reaches 50kbps
> the backup will kick in.
> Let's assume that they are NOT doing load sharing.
>
> TIME1: Primary =50kbps and Backup = 30
> kbps------------ average load = (50
> + 30)/200 = 40%. So backup is still up
> TIME2: Primary =30kbps and Backup = 20
> kbps------------ average load = (30
> + 20)/200 = 25%. So backup is still up
> TIME3: Primary =10kbps and Backup = 8
> kbps------------ average load = (10
> + 8)/200 = 9%. So backup will no longer be used.
>
> Let me know if I correctly understand this.
>
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> regards,
> RAM
> .
>



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