Hi all, I'm sure there's a technical reason why it can't be done (I imagine it would have been if possible.) but I'd love to educate myself on what the reason is why LACP Load balancing doesn't have a 'round-robin' option in addition to the L2,L3,L4 src/dst options it has now?
It seems to me that sending each new packet out the least recently used interface would be a useful option for distributing the load accross the aggregated interfaces? Why can't this be done? Right now I'm watching (with dladm show-aggr -s -i 5) a large FTP of several 4GB ISO's. Since L3/4 src/dst load balancing is in use on both machines, each time FTP starts a new file it picks a new port, and that generally means that LACP picks a new interface, but since FTP is only sending 1 file at a time, LACP is only keeping 1 interface going at a time. Wouldn't it help if each new packet were sent down a new interface in a round robin pattern? What am I missing? -Kyle _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
