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EIGRP Equal Cost Load-Balancing

EIGRP Equal Cost Load-Balancing

in the display below, I would like to know if R1 will reach network 4.4.4.4 in Load-balancing way.. I mean one packet will go out of fa0/0 and another fa0/1.
How is load-balancing done in the equal cost ?

Thank you

R1#sh ip eigrp topology 
EIGRP-IPv4 Topology Table for AS(1)/ID(192.168.13.1)
Codes: P - Passive, A - Active, U - Update, Q - Query, R - Reply,
       r - reply Status, s - sia Status 

P 192.168.24.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 30720
        via 192.168.12.2 (30720/28160), FastEthernet0/0
P 192.168.34.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 30720
        via 192.168.13.3 (30720/28160), FastEthernet0/1
P 192.168.12.0/24, 1 successors, FD is 28160
        via Connected, FastEthernet0/0
[b]P 4.4.4.4/32, 2 successors, FD is 158720
        via 192.168.12.2 (158720/156160), FastEthernet0/0
        via 192.168.13.3 (158720/156160), FastEthernet0/1
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jskfan

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but how is the traffic load-balanced.
is it like one packet will go out of fa0/0 and the other packet will go out of fa0/1 ?

atlas_shuddered

Default is per destination

In theory then:

Stream 1 goes through path A
Stream 2 through path B
Stream 3 through A
4 through B
Etc

That said, there are other underlying influencers that can affect the actual traffic flow at any given time.

jskfan

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Thank you