does anyone have real experience with ethernet bond mode 6 (balanced-alb)?
we have 5 source servers each connected to two switches (A and B).
each server operates their pair of 1Gbps connections as an active/passive pair
(under Solaris).
we have a sink server with 4 1Gbps connections, 2 to A and 2 to B.
we have configured these 4 ethernets as bonded mode 6.
when testing this setup, we find that with all 5 source servers sending data
to teh sink server, all the traffic flows over one of the 4 channels
terminating at the sink.
we would have expected the traffic to be spread somewhat evenly over the 4
channels.
is this a problem? have we misunderstood what mode 6 means?
or is this just because during testing we didn't generate more than 1Gbps
traffic into the sink server?
andrew
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Andrew Hume
623-551-2845 (VO and best)
973-236-2014 (NJ)
[email protected]
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