From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: John Lumby <johnlumby@hotmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
WeipingPan <panweiping3@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:21:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304090462.9358.1617.camel@tardy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBAC552.507@hotmail.com>
> >> What is looped back frames here ?
> > In this case they are frames that get received by the bond, which the bond
> > itself sent. In modes where more than one slave is active, and in which the
> > switch has no additional knoweldge of the aggregate (e.g. round robin mode), the
> > bond can send a frame on one slave, which the switch may broadcast to all ports,
>
>
> Isn't this (broadcasting or repeating on all ports other than incoming)
> more associated with simple hubs rather than switches? I would think
> any switch with layer 2 capability does not do that (does it?)
Perhaps when a frame is sent via the bond to a destination MAC not yet
learned by the switch?
Until a switch sees a MAC as a src, it does not know to which port the
frame(s) should be forwarded, so it must send the frame out all ports
but the ingress port.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-29 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 7:33 Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ? WeipingPan
2011-04-28 12:21 ` Neil Horman
[not found] ` <0FBC7C9C2640634A8B837C2EFFCFF32F0184732D72@SHEXMB-01.global.atheros.com>
2011-04-28 13:23 ` 答复: " Neil Horman
2011-04-29 3:17 ` WeipingPan
2011-04-29 10:43 ` Neil Horman
2011-04-29 13:59 ` WeipingPan
2011-04-29 14:04 ` John Lumby
2011-04-29 15:21 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2011-04-29 17:01 ` Jay Vosburgh
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