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Now I understand why it doesn't work.

I will look into it and try to find a solution.

Thanks for all help
Daniel

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> On second thought, there is no packet loss. This is expected be=
haviour, it
> appears, see http://www.kernelnotes.de/kt/latest.html:
>
> Alexey Kuznetsov was critical of this explanation, and said tha=
t multipath
> routing worked "perfectly when you need to split load on s=
ervers
> talking to
> enough large number of clients. Any
>      http server is good example." He added that Andi's su=
ggestion of the
> existing eql, teql and bonding devices, would introcude "e=
ven
> worse problem
> of strong tcp reordering. Actually,
>      experiments show that load balancing works only in the
> situations, when
> congestion window is bounded by 3 packets. If it is not made ar=
tificially,
> it occurs automatically on each connection
>      after some amount of excessive retransmissions. Total sing=
le TCP
> connection throughput is never better in this case. Actually, i=
t hints to
> the thought that "true load blalancing" has to
>      involve tracking connections and avoiding reordering TCP p=
ackets."
> There was no reply to this, but there was a bit of implementati=
on
> discussion
> elsewhere, along the lines of Andi's
>      explanations.
>
> ----
>
> You might consider using google a bit to find out about packet
> reordering -
> packets arrive out of sequence on eth1 and eth2, which the kern=
el
> interprets
> as packetloss.
>
> Regards,
>
> bert hubert
>
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