Given the distribution function, all traffic for a given port tuple or IP address will use the same link, and it will essentially be random, so the likelihood of even distribution of traffic increases...Given the distribution function, all traffic for a given port tuple or IP address will use the same link, and it will essentially be random, so the likelihood of even distribution of traffic increases as the number of unique distributions increases In an IP-based distribution, it would be required to increase the number of actual client IPs that are accessing the system, in order to increase that same probability of even distribution