{
  "number": 2991,
  "title": "Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop Selection",
  "authors": [
    "D. Thaler",
    "C. Hopps"
  ],
  "published": "2000-11",
  "status": "Informational",
  "stream": "Legacy",
  "pages": 9,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "The effect of multipath routing on a forwarder is that the forwarder potentially has several next-hops for any given destination and must use some method to choose which next-hop should be used for a given data packet. This memo summarizes current practices, problems, and solutions. This memo provides information for the Internet community.",
  "keywords": [
    "routing",
    "forwarding",
    "packets",
    "ECMP"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-thaler-multipath-05",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2991",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2991/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2991.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2991",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2991/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2000-11-02T16:53:03Z"
}