From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: 802.3ad bonding brain damaged? Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:52:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4E3EECF6.90409@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]:50729 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754756Ab1HGTwY (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2011 15:52:24 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From Documentation/networking/bonding.txt: Additionally, the linux bonding 802.3ad implementation distributes traffic by peer (using an XOR of MAC addresses), This is counter to the entire point of 802.3ad. Distributing traffic by hash of the destination address is poor mans load balancing for systems not supporting 802.3ad. When in 802.3ad mode, packets are supposed to be queued to whichever interface has the shortest tx length so a single stream to a single host can be balanced across all links instead of being restricted to one, while the other is idle. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4+7PMACgkQJ4UciIs+XuKJtwCgrubCy9NgiS3HppxpRRtx4W7l aFkAnR1uLW+4aM/TOSQgYZVsf/4yXGvE =Yetx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----