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SubjectRe: Again: EQL - someone's use this thing yet?
Thomas Davis wrote:
>
> Constantine Gavrilov wrote:
> >
> > Does this mean that only channel bonding (discussed previously in this thread)
> > can provide a required solution in this case?
>
> Bonding doesn't care about the protocol. Depending on the switch and
> network configuration, bonding/etherchannel only cares about mac
> hardware address.
>
> What bonding will do, is to round-robin send packets down the bonded
> interfaces. It's up to the switch/system on the other end to determine
> what to do with those packets.

I know that bonding will work (thanks for this cool stuff BTW!). The question
was whether route multipath + equalize from diffserv package can achieve a
similar functionality for load balancing IP traffic. (I know that mulitpath will
balance just IP, but I care only about IP).


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