>From what I can tell from Sun's Trunking manual, and working with the
software, it doesn't ever really round robin the packets..
Your ethernet address determines which channel of the bundle you use;
and you get stuck with it.
No real load balancing there..
>
> Again, you don't need this protocol to do enough
> output hashing to interoperate. Linux could establish
> its own hashing scheme and happily co-work with
> EtherChannel switches. It's just that the port allocation
> on the switch needs to be done manually. Not a big deal.
>
This works.
I know; I'm doing it today. I've sent the bonding patch for 2.2 to
Alan; some comments and changes will probably occur (but not for at
least a week; I'm headed out for a few days..)
The network support people prefer to setup the channel by manually; they
don't trust the auto detect code.
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