Subject: Re: Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ?

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:21:02 -0700

> >> What is looped back frames here ?
> > In this case they are frames that get received by the bond, which the bond
> > itself sent.  In modes where more than one slave is active, and in which the
> > switch has no additional knoweldge of the aggregate (e.g. round robin mode), the
> > bond can send a frame on one slave, which the switch may broadcast to all ports,
> 
> 
> Isn't this (broadcasting or repeating on all ports other than incoming) 
> more associated with simple hubs rather than switches?     I would think 
> any switch with layer 2 capability does not do that (does it?)

Perhaps when a frame is sent via the bond to a destination MAC not yet
learned by the switch?  

Until a switch sees a MAC as a src, it does not know to which port the
frame(s) should be forwarded, so it must send the frame out all ports
but the ingress port.

rick jones