Huawei NetEngine 8000 F can implement load balancing using static routes and a variety of routing protocols, including the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), RIP next generation (RIPng), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), OSPFv3, Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
When multiple dynamic routes participate in load-balancing, these routes must have equal metric. As metric can be compared only among routes of the same protocol, only routes of the same protocol can load-balance traffic.