From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 03:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 03:41:15 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:51939 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 03:40:03 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9mcth3$cs2$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <3B865882.24D57941@biochem.mpg.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <3B867096.3A1D7DE@candelatech.com> <20010824172256.A2531@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <3B86769D.17A979D7@candelatech.com> <20010824180400.B2848@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 998898019 17133 212.34.181.4 (27 Aug 2001 07:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:40:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen 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 -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20