Name: Foundry Networks Switch and Router
Brand: Foundry Networks
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Foundry Switch and Router Installation and Configuration Guide

15 - 60 December 2000

As shown in Table 15.7, the results of the network-based IP load sharing algorithm provide evenly-distributed load

sharing. Figure 15.8 shows a network where a Layer 3 Switch has eight equal-cost paths to destination networks

N1 – N8. The Layer 3 Switch (R1) has been enabled to support up to eight IP load sharing paths.

Figure 15.8 Network-based IP load sharing – example with eight equal-cost paths and eight destination networks

As shown in this example, the algorithm for network-based IP load-sharing does not select the paths beginning

with the first path, but the algorithm nonetheless results in an evenly distributed selection of paths.

Disabling or Re-Enabling Load Sharing

If you do not use IP load sharing and you want to disable the feature, use either of the following methods.

USING THE CLI

To disable IP load sharing, enter the following commands:

BigIron(config)# no ip load-sharing

Syntax: [no] ip load-sharing

IP Forwarding Cache

Network-Based Load Sharing

Destination Network

Next Hop

R1 is configured with eight

IP load sharing paths, and has

eight paths to networks N1 - N8,

attached to R10.

The cache entries in this example

are based on the assumption that

R1 receives traffic for N1 - N8, in

that order.

R10

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