From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>,
"Joao Alberto M. dos Reis (listas de discucao)"
<lista@vudu.ath.cx>,
lista do kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Network Load Balance
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:26:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE3F4F9.4090506@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021126112648.A30916@vger.timpanogas.org
Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Here is something we did at Novell many years back that worked very well for
> load balancing across multiple adapters. This implementation allowed up
> to four (4) adapters to function with load balancing. To pull this off,
> you need to spoof at the MAC laer and alter the MAC addresses in the
> header of received frames to spoof the IP stack above. This method
> requires **NO** changes to any protocol stacks above.
How is this different from the bonding driver(s) that are already
in the kernel?
Also, round-robin type of things seem to cause trouble by re-ordering
packets (as seen by the receiving machine).
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-26 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-25 22:43 Network Load Balance Joao Alberto M. dos Reis (listas de discucao)
2002-11-25 22:59 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-26 18:26 ` [PROPOSAL] " Jeff V. Merkey
2002-11-26 22:26 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2002-11-27 1:50 ` Joao Alberto M. dos Reis (Listas de discucao)
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2002-11-27 8:48 Marc-Christian Petersen
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