Fwd: Question about debug ip route output

From: CCIEwnaB (cciewnab@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2007 - 19:54:14 ART


So no repsonses on this. Is that because you're trying to reproduce it...or
is this shocked amazement at yet another long question with an obvious
answer?

If it's the later, please enlighten me ;)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CCIEwnaB <cciewnab@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2007 5:49 PM
Subject: Question about debug ip route output
To: Cisco certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>

Smart peeps,

Like many others on GS I have gotten in the habit of using "debug ip routing"
through most of the lab. I like that I get instant feedback if I accidently
kill a route or two, and enjoy seeing them pop in when adding a network
statement or redistribution. That being said I have noticed something in
many labs related to OSPF load balancing and just want to be sure I'm not
habitually screwing something up.

When I have two paths to the same destination and am equal cost load
balancing to that destination, I've noticed that any time I have traffic
running (ping for example) across the load balanced link (with debug ip
routing enabled) I see a message noting an RDB change from Path A to Path B.
If I ping again it swaps from B to A.

When I do a show ip route 1.2.3.4 I see that I'm load balancing on 2 paths
with a traffic share count of 1 on each path, which makes sense.

I guess I just want to be sure this output is normal and that I haven't
missed anything. It's especially abnoxious when a BGP peering session is
running acros the load balanced path. The TCP session results in a steady
stream of these messages.

Thanks in advance,
wnaB



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