Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding

["Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>]

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

>On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:45:33AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On the surface, multi-path routing sounds complicated to me, while
>> layer-2 bonding seems relatively trivial to set up/administer.  Since we do
>> support bonding, if it's a simple fix to make it better, we
>> might as well do that, eh?

>multipath routing is really not complicated; I don't know why it "sounds"
>complicated to you. Of course you could always add new features to the kernel
>because the existing ones which do the same thing in a better way
>"sound complicated" to someone; I doubt it is a good use of developer time 
>however. 

But it is still the wrong layer.

Ethernet Bonding ist "below" IP. Very handy if you want to run
something "not ip".

	Regards
		Henning


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