From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:10:17 +0000 Subject: SV: [LARTC] Loadbalancing on multiple eth rtl8139 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:44:50PM +0200, Daniel Bergqvist wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The devices eth1 and eth3 MUST be active. Remove "ip link set down eth1" and
> "ip link set down eth3". You might get problems with "TCP packet reordering"
> resulting in lower bandwidth but I'm currently working with a patch to the
> sch_teql driver. I will post it to the list if/when I get it to work.

Read the archive of netdev@oss.sgi.com, 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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