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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding and IPv6 "doesn't work"?
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:15:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1C812A.4080701@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1C756C.2010700@wpkg.org>

On 07/12/2011 10:25 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> On 12.07.2011 18:14, David Lamparter wrote:

>> Your bonding peer is probably looping those
>> packets back on the other link, most likely because...
>>
>>> Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
>>
>> ... most likely because you maybe have a switch on the other side, and
>> that switch expects you to do 802.3ad?
>
> It's a virtual machine, so the host shouldn't know or care much about
> 802.3ad (I think!).

I suspect that connecting multiple links of a bond to the same unmanaged 
switch (or virtual bridge) is going to confuse things.

Try using multiple virtual bridges instead, one for each slave in the 
bond.  That way they won't interfere with each other.

Chris

-- 
Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
chris.friesen@genband.com
www.genband.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-12 16:05 bonding and IPv6 "doesn't work"? Tomasz Chmielewski
2011-07-12 16:14 ` David Lamparter
2011-07-12 16:25   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2011-07-12 16:36     ` David Lamparter
2011-07-12 17:15     ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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