Hi Jordan On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jordan Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> TBH I don't think so. With everything I've read (including today in > trying to answer your question), mode=0 doesn't require any switch > configuration whatsoever. Almost all the sites that explain the modes > have copied the info from a central source (Linux kernel bonding.txt ?) Yeah, seems like the original document is here http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt It was reading that document that made me want to ask more about this. Especially section 7: "7. Which switches/systems does it work with? In round-robin mode, it works with systems that support trunking:" > We're using HP Procurve switches so I'd assume they can handle trunking, > but I (nor anyone else in our venture) didn't touch the switch config, > and I haven't had any issues with it since I configured the hosts. So I > guess I just assumed it worked well. ;) I'll give it a shot :-> > From http://lokams.blogspot.com/2008/03/ethernet-bonding-in-linux.html : > > * Mode 0 (balance-rr) > This mode transmits packets in a sequential order from the first > available slave through the last. If two real interfaces are slaves in > the bond and two packets arrive destined out of the bonded interface the > first will be transmitted on the first slave and the second frame will > be transmitted on the second slave. The third packet will be sent on the > first and so on. This provides load balancing and fault tolerance. So that's transmit, but I guess I wonder what about receiving traffic? Aren't we really relying on the switch to do the right thing? Anyway, thanks very much for taking the time to help me through this. Cheers, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
