SV: [LARTC] Loadbalancing on multiple eth rtl8139

[bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl]

<PRE>On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:44:50PM +0200, Daniel Bergqvist wrote:
&gt;<i> Hi!
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> The devices eth1 and eth3 MUST be active. Remove &quot;ip link set down eth1&quot; and
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;ip link set down eth3&quot;. You might get problems with &quot;TCP packet reordering&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> resulting in lower bandwidth but I'm currently working with a patch to the
</I>&gt;<i> sch_teql driver. I will post it to the list if/when I get it to work.
</I>
Read the archive of <A HREF="mailto:netdev@oss.sgi.com">netdev@oss.sgi.com</A>, I discussed it with Alexey and Jamal
there and they had some reservations about the idea. What might work is set
up the bundled device, and run a tcp/ip tunnel over it, like 'vtund'. This
lets the Linux TCP/IP stack reorder packets. Linux is not disturbed by
simple reordering problems, and thus solves your problems.

The only remaining problem is that tunneling over tcp/ip has some problems
of its own.

Regards,

bert hubert

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