From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Cacophonix <cacophonix@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:23:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D85DB3D.DC65A80B@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020913222213.69396.qmail@web14006.mail.yahoo.com
Cacophonix wrote:
>
> --- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> > This has always confused me. Why doesn't the bonding driver try and spread
> > all the traffic over all the links?
>
> Because then you risk heavy packet reordering within an individual flow,
> which can be detrimental in some cases.
> --karthik
I can see how it could make the receiving host work more on reassembly, but if throughput is key,
wouldn't you still end up better if you can push twice as many packets through the pipe?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-16 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 18:39 bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation Boris Protopopov
2002-09-12 23:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-13 14:29 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-13 22:22 ` Cacophonix
2002-09-16 13:23 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2002-09-16 16:09 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-16 19:55 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-16 21:10 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-16 21:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-16 21:22 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-16 21:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-17 10:16 ` jamal
2002-09-17 16:43 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-18 1:07 ` jamal
2002-09-18 4:06 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-18 11:48 ` jamal
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-13 1:30 Feldman, Scott
2002-09-13 14:50 ` Boris Protopopov
2002-09-16 20:12 Yan-Fa Li
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