Right,

And not sure if it would help Pieter's problem anyway:

 # ifconfig
bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:00:00:00:00:41
          inet addr:10.93.27.250  Bcast:10.93.27.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::ff:fe00:41/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:412326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:513783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:115082811 (109.7 Mb)  TX bytes:127188062 (121.2 Mb)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:00:00:00:00:41
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:394205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:513781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:114199553 (108.9 Mb)  TX bytes:127187894 (121.2 Mb)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:00:00:00:00:41
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:883258 (862.5 Kb)  TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:198 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11715 (11.4 Kb)  TX bytes:11715 (11.4 Kb) 

Given the counts, it seems to greatly favor one over the other (this one
is sles 10 sp2)


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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Mark Post
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:53 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] bonding multiple qeth vnics to vswitch?

>>> On 1/22/2009 at  6:51 PM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com>
wrote: 
-snip-
> While you can have multiple vNICs on an aggregating VSWITCH, there's 
> nothing that will spray/deal queued frames across the vNICs since they

> each have a unique MAC address.

When the bonded NIC starts up, both of the slave's MAC addresses are set
to be the same.  So, they're not unique.


Mark Post

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