loadbalance packet enable

Function

The loadbalance packet enable command enables the per-packet load balancing mode on an outbound interface.

The undo loadbalance packet enable command disables the per-packet load balancing mode on an outbound interface.

By default, an outbound interface uses the per-flow load balancing mode.

loadbalance packet enable

undo loadbalance packet enable

None

Eth-Trunk interface view, GE optical interface view, GE sub-interface view, GE electrical interface view

2: Configuration level

Task Name	Operations
forwarding	write

Usage Scenario

The Router supports per-flow and per-packet load balancing modes.

Per-flow load balancing: In this mode, the Router forwards packets that have the same attribute through the same interface. This mode minimizes packet disorder risks on receiving devices.
Per-packet load balancing: In this mode, the Router evenly distributes packets to multiple outbound interfaces, without considering logical relationships between packets. Therefore, this mode implements interface-based load balancing.
By default, an outbound interface uses the per-flow load balancing mode. If the lengths of packets have no big difference and the per-packet load balancing mode is demanded, run the
loadbalance packet enable command.

Precautions

Per-packet load balancing is supported on the following types of interfaces only:Layer 3 Ethernet interfaces, GE interfaces, Eth-Trunk interfaces, Ethernet sub-interfaces, QinQ VLAN tag termination sub-interfaces, dot1q VLAN tag termination sub-interfaces, flexible access sub-interfaces, Eth-Trunk dot1q VLAN tag termination sub-interfaces, Eth-Trunk QinQ VLAN tag termination sub-interfaces, remote AP interfaces, and remote Eth-Trunk interfaces.
If this command is run in the Eth-Trunk interface view, per-packet load balancing is performed among multiple member interfaces.
Per-packet load balancing takes effect only when the loadbalance packet enable command is configured on each outbound interface that participates in load balancing.

# Enable the per-packet load balancing mode on an outbound interface.

<HUAWEI> system-view
[~HUAWEI] interface GigabitEthernet0/1/1
[*HUAWEI-GigabitEthernet0/1/1] loadbalance packet enable