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From: eden@fallout.uucp (Robert Eden)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Load Balancing
Message-ID: <5964@fallout.uucp>
Date: 30 May 91 11:19:33 GMT
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Organization: DECUS DFWLug BBS - Dallas, TX
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HANK@VM.BIU.AC.IL (Hank Nussbacher) writes:
> If you are routing
> DECNET via Phase IV you will not be using one line at all and it will
> be more or less a hot standby.  If the cost is the same on both lines
> the DECNET routing protocol will still only use one line.  Phase V will
> load balance between the two lines.

PHASE IV+ shipped with VMS 5.0 and some of the new routers support
equal cost balancing.  It is off by default and must be turned on with the
PATH_SPLIT exec parameter.  I'm not sure if the CISCO DECNET implementation
supports this.

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