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Understanding Expected Behavior for BGP Multipathing

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When using BGP you can expect traffic flows (but not packets) to be distributed between ECMP routes based on the ECMP-hashing algorithm that takes into account the source and destination addresses. This means multiple flows from the same client to the same destination will NOT be load balanced across the routes. The blog entry Multipath Routing in Linux - part 2 describes the ECMP algorithm.