Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:40:19 +0000 (UTC) |
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
>On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:45:33AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: >> On the surface, multi-path routing sounds complicated to me, while >> layer-2 bonding seems relatively trivial to set up/administer. Since we do >> support bonding, if it's a simple fix to make it better, we >> might as well do that, eh?
>multipath routing is really not complicated; I don't know why it "sounds" >complicated to you. Of course you could always add new features to the kernel >because the existing ones which do the same thing in a better way >"sound complicated" to someone; I doubt it is a good use of developer time >however.
But it is still the wrong layer.
Ethernet Bonding ist "below" IP. Very handy if you want to run something "not ip".
Regards Henning
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