Equal Cost Multi-Path (Ecmp); Ecmp For Flow-Based Affinity; Configuring The Hash Algorithm Seed; Link Bundle Monitoring - Dell S6100 Configuration Manual

This chapter describes configuring ECMP. This chapter describes configuring ECMP.

ECMP for Flow-Based Affinity

ECMP for flow-based affinity includes link bundle monitoring.

Configuring the Hash Algorithm Seed

Deterministic ECMP sorts ECMPs in order even though RTM provides them in a random order. However, the hash algorithm uses as a seed
the lower 12 bits of the chassis MAC, which yields a different hash result for every chassis.
This behavior means that for a given flow, even though the prefixes are sorted, two unrelated chassis can select different hops.
Dell Networking OS provides a command line interface (CLI)-based solution for modifying the hash seed to ensure that on each configured
system, the ECMP selection is same. When configured, the same seed is set for ECMP, LAG, and NH, and is used for incoming traffic only.
NOTE: While the seed is stored separately on each port-pipe, the same seed is used across all CAMs.
NOTE: You cannot separate LAG and ECMP, but you can use different algorithms across the chassis with the same seed. If LAG
member ports span multiple port-pipes and line cards, set the seed to the same value on each port-pipe to achieve deterministic
behavior.
NOTE: If you remove the hash algorithm configuration, the hash seed does not return to the original factory default
setting.
To configure the hash algorithm seed, use the following command.
• Specify the hash algorithm seed.
CONFIGURATION mode.
hash-algorithm seed value [stack—unit stack—unit-number] [port-set number]
The range is from 0 to 4095.

Link Bundle Monitoring

Link bundle monitoring allows the system to monitor the use of multiple links for an uneven distribution.
Monitoring linked ECMP bundles allows traffic distribution amounts in a link to be monitored for unfair distribution at any given time. A
global default threshold of 60% is Link bundle monitoring allows the system to monitor the use of multiple links for an uneven distribution. .
Links are monitored in 15-second intervals for three consecutive instances. Any deviation within that time causes a syslog to be sent and an
alarm event generate. When the deviation clears, another syslog is sent and a clear alarm event generates. For example, link bundle
monitoring percent threshold: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %IFMGR-5-BUNDLE_UNEVEN_DISTRIBUTION: Found uneven
distribution in LAG bundle 11.
Link bundle utilization is calculated as the total bandwidth of all links divided by the total bytes-per-second of all links. Within each ECMP
group, you can specify interfaces. If you enable monitoring for the ECMP group, utilization calculation performs when the utilization of the
link-bundle (not a link within a bundle) exceeds 60%.
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