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Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths

Contents

Restrictions for Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths

Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths Overview

Additional References

Related Documents

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Command Reference

Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths

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The Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths feature increases the maximum number of parallel routes that can be installed to the routing table for multipath loadsharing.

Feature History for the Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths Feature

Release	Modification
12.3(2)T	This feature was introduced.
12.2(25)S	This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)S.

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Contents

•Restrictions for Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths

•Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths Overview

•Additional References

•Command Reference

Restrictions for Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths

The Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths feature is only available in software images for supported platforms in Cisco IOS Release 12.3(2)T and later 12.3T releases.

Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths Overview

The Loadsharing IP Packets Over More Than Six Parallel Paths feature increases the maximum number of parallel routes that can be installed to the routing table. The maximum number has been increased from six to sixteen for the following commands:

•maximum-paths

•maximum-paths eibgp

•maximum-paths ibgp

The output of the show ip route summary command has been updated to show the number of parallel routes supported by the routing table.

The benefits of this feature include the following:

•More flexible configuration of parallel routes in the routing table.

•Ability to configure multipath loadsharing over more links to allow for the configuration of higher-bandwidth aggregation using lower-speed links.

Additional References

For additional information related to multipath load sharing and the configuration of parallel routes, refer to the following references:

Related Documents

Related Topic	Document Title
BGP commands: complete command syntax, command mode, command history, defaults, usage guidelines, and examples	Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Command Reference
BGP configuration tasks including multipath load sharing	BGP Feature Roadmap
eiBGP Multipath Load Sharing	"BGP Multipath Load Sharing for Both eBGP and iBGP in an MPLS-VPN" module
iBGP Multipath Load Sharing	"iBGP Multipath Load Sharing" module

MIBs

MIBs	MIBs Link
No new or modified MIBs are supported by this feature, and support for existing MIBs has not been modified by this feature.	To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFCs	Title
No new or modified RFCs are supported by this feature, and support for existing RFCs has not been modified by this feature.	—

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Command Reference

The following commands are introduced or modified in the feature or features documented in this module. For information about these commands, see the Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Command Reference at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/iproute/command/reference/irp_book.html. For information about all Cisco IOS commands, go to the Command Lookup Tool at http://tools.cisco.com/Support/CLILookup or to the Cisco IOS Master Commands List.

•maximum-paths

•maximum-paths eibgp

•maximum-paths ibgp

show ip route summary

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