Thanks Scott. Yes, our experience has been in regards to using active-tlb and active-slb across multiple switches with M-LAG on the switches and LACP.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Scott Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: > Vinay, some switches have support for multi-chassis link aggregation > (often called MLAG). For MLAG-capable switches, you should be able to use > any LACP-based bonding mechanism across multiple **correctly configured** > switches. However, in the absence of MLAG support, LACP-based bonding types > cannot be used across multiple upstream switches. > > Does that help at all? > > > On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Vinay Bannai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Reading through the 'INTERNALS" document in vswitchd directory, I saw a > statement under "Active Backup Bonding" that I would like to get clarified. > > > > Active Backup bonds send all traffic out one "active" slave until that > > slave becomes unavailable. Since they are significantly less > > complicated than SLB bonds, they are preferred when LACP is not an > > option. Additionally, they are the only bond mode which supports > > attaching each slave to a different upstream switch. > > > > The last statement implies that only Active Backup supports connecting > to different upstream switches. This seems to be incorrect as our > experience shows that we can connect to the different upstream switches for > both "tlb" and "slb" modes using LACP. If someone can clarify, I am happy > to update the section. > > > > -- > > Vinay Bannai > > Email: [email protected] > > Google Voice: 415 938 7576 > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Vinay Bannai Email: [email protected] Google Voice: 415 938 7576
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