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From: WeipingPan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:17:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBA2DDC.80502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110428122102.GB4165@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>

On 04/28/2011 08:21 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:33:50PM +0800, WeipingPan wrote:
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> 802.3ad mode in bonding implements 802.3ad standard.
>>
>> I am just wondering  802.3ad mode is useful,
>> since  bonding has many modes like balance-rr, active-backup, etc.
>>
> Yes, of course its usefull.  For switches which support 802.3ad, this mode
> allows for both peers to understand that the links in the bond are acting as an
> aggregate, which makes it easier to prevent things like inadvertently looped
> back frames, for which the other modes have to have all sorts of hacks to
> prevent.
What is looped back frames here ?
I didn't see any special code to handle looped back frames in other 
modes in bonding,
can you take an example ?

thanks
Weiping Pan

> Neil
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-28  7:33 Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ? WeipingPan
2011-04-28 12:21 ` Neil Horman
     [not found]   ` <0FBC7C9C2640634A8B837C2EFFCFF32F0184732D72@SHEXMB-01.global.atheros.com>
2011-04-28 13:23     ` 答复: " Neil Horman
2011-04-29  3:17   ` WeipingPan [this message]
2011-04-29 10:43     ` Neil Horman
2011-04-29 13:59       ` WeipingPan
2011-04-29 14:04       ` John Lumby
2011-04-29 15:21         ` Rick Jones
2011-04-29 17:01       ` Jay Vosburgh

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