Multipath support is enabled, where type is either: PERCONNECTION, or PERPACKET. In general, multipath routing provides the routing distribution necessary to balance the network utilization of outbound packets. Multipath routing requires the definition of multiple equal-cost routes, which are either defined statically or added dynamically by routing protocols. If MULTIPATH is specified without any subparameters, the default is PERCONNECTION.

The state of MULTIPATH support is changed as the result of an SNMP SET request on the ibmMvsMultipathType MIB object.