From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [Bonding][patch] Adding Transmit load balancing mode to bonding Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:06:27 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030327.080627.71980411.davem@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bonding-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Return-path: To: shmulik.hen@intel.com In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: shmulik.hen@intel.com Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:38:02 +0200 (IST) Balancing is connection oriented (e.g. by IPv4 destination address) so packet order is always kept. You could also key off of the destination/source port as well for UDP/TCP/SCTP. Have you experimented with this?