Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:50:03AM CET, [email protected] wrote: > David Miller wrote: >> From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:28 +0100 >> >>> I can see two solutions. Either like my patch or somehow allow bridge to >>> know >>> more MAC addressses per port (maybe netdev can be changed to know more then >>> one MAC address). >>> >>> Any thoughts? >> >> The netdev struct already supports having a list of multiple unicast >> MAC addresses, it can probably be used and inspected for this. >> >> I'll hold off on your patch until we make some more progress on >> this discussion. > > From reading the balance-alb description, I get the impression that this > mode is simply not meant to be used with bridging: > > Adaptive load balancing: includes balance-tlb plus > receive load balancing (rlb) for IPV4 traffic, and > does not require any special switch support. The > receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation. > The bonding driver intercepts the ARP Replies sent by > the local system on their way out and overwrites the > source hardware address with the unique hardware > address of one of the slaves in the bond such that > different peers use different hardware addresses for > the server. > > In any case I'd tend to say that if bond-alb mode mangles outgoing MAC > addresses, it should restore the original one for received packets > and keep the hacks local to bonding.
To let bonding driver to resolve this I think there will be needed some kind of hook in netif_receive_skb() as for example bridge has. I would rather do this more general and transparent. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
