Re: L3 Port Channel Question.

thanks Marko for correcting me.. yes my mind was all over the place :(
EIGRP is the one which has other triggers e.g. bw, latency etc.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 18:43, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Good question!
> >
> > AFAIK the tie breaker for chosing OSPF over a L3 port channeling would be
> > "OSPF provides MULTIPLE path load balancing".
> > Also checks multiple other network related parameters (latency bandwidth
> > etc). With L3 port channeling we can't enforce based on bandwidth/load,
> > etc).
>
> Sorry but you are not correct here. OSPF does not take anything other
> than cost to the destination as the basis for load sharing. If more
> than one link shares the the same cost to the destination, it will be
> load shared. Where packet is sent to depends on the hash the CEF uses.
> I'm sort of tip toeing around defining the hash, because I'm not 100%
> sure what it consists of by default...
>
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