z/OS Communications Server: IPv6 Network and Application Design Guide
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Considerations for multipath routes

z/OS Communications Server: IPv6 Network and Application Design Guide
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Multiple routes to the same destination are considered multipath routes. Multipath routes can be used for load balancing. Multipath route support for IPv6 is identical to multipath route support for IPv4. Define the MULTIPATH keyword on the IPCONFIG6 statement to control whether multipath routes in the main route table are used for load balancing. Define the Multipath6 parameter on the RouteTable policy statement to control whether multipath routes in a policy-based route table are used for load balancing.

Tips:
  • If MULTIPATH is not enabled, the first active route added is selected.
  • When a route that belongs to a multipath group is being used, the MTU that is used is the minimum MTU of all routes in the multipath group.

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