Hi Ben,
> Couldn't the bonding code be made to distribute pkts to one interface or
> another based on a hash of the sending IP port or something? Seems like that
> would fix the reordering problem for IP packets.... It wouldn't help for
> a single stream, but I'm guessing the real world problem involves many streams,
> which on average should hash such that the load is balanced...
You may take a look at this for enhancements to the bonding driver :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding/
The XOR method has been implemented to hash the flows based on the SRC/DST
MAC addresses.
Regards,
Willy
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