Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:04:04 +0200 | From | Constantine Gavrilov <> | Subject | Re: Again: EQL - someone's use this thing yet? |
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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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