On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 04:28:07PM -0700, Andy Zhou wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:14:33PM +0000, Jason Burns wrote: > >> Can the balance-slb bond mode in Open vSwitch be used for a bond > >> connected to two separate upstream switches? > >> > >> When I read the documentation [1] it states that only active-backup > >> can be used to connect to two separate upstream switches, but no > >> explanation is provided. > > > > I don't recall the exact reason, but I remember that this caused > > problems, and that's why we documented it. > > > > I hope that someone else can speak up with the reason. > > Bond traffic rebalancing or link flapping may mass up the mac learning > table of those separate upstream switches.
If you have a specific example in mind, then I think we'd all find it enlightening. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
