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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, cacophonix@yahoo.com,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:22:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D864B96.6D0D43F4@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020916.140453.72638827.davem@redhat.com

"David S. Miller" wrote:
>    From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
> 
>    Okay, that makes me even more curious why we don't send successive
>    packets out successive pipes in a bonded link.
> 
> This is not done because it leads to packet reordering which
> if bad enough can trigger retransmits.
> 
> Scott Feldman's posting mentioned this, as did one other I
> think.

I did see those posts, but then I saw yours on how the linux receive end does the right thing with
regards to reordering, and that confused me.

So if I have it right linux-linux could theoretically work okay with a single stream over multiple
links (potentially causing lots of reordering), but linux-router would not work well.


Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-16 21:22 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
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 [this message]
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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