Load sharing versus Load Balancing

[Bruce Pinsky]

Pautonnier, Jacky writes:

==>
==>Assuming I am having 2 HDLC/Serial links between 2 routers , ( sharing same
==>ip subnet
==>and same bridge-group and domain ), could anyone help me giving a brief and
==>rational explanation
==>on what is exactly the difference between Load sharing and load balancing
==>for both bridging and routing
==>

The difference between load sharing and load balancing is that load balancing
implies that an effort is made to maintain an equal or equitable load over
the multiple links. In load sharing, the load may be split up, but it may
or not be balanced. So you may have a bunch of heavy speakers on the
same link while all the light speakers end up on the other link.

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