From: WeipingPan <panweiping3@gmail•com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:17:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBA2DDC.80502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110428122102.GB4165@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
On 04/28/2011 08:21 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:33:50PM +0800, WeipingPan wrote:
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> 802.3ad mode in bonding implements 802.3ad standard.
>>
>> I am just wondering 802.3ad mode is useful,
>> since bonding has many modes like balance-rr, active-backup, etc.
>>
> Yes, of course its usefull. For switches which support 802.3ad, this mode
> allows for both peers to understand that the links in the bond are acting as an
> aggregate, which makes it easier to prevent things like inadvertently looped
> back frames, for which the other modes have to have all sorts of hacks to
> prevent.
What is looped back frames here ?
I didn't see any special code to handle looped back frames in other
modes in bonding,
can you take an example ?
thanks
Weiping Pan
> Neil
>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 7:33 Is 802.3ad mode in bonding useful ? WeipingPan
2011-04-28 12:21 ` Neil Horman
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2011-04-28 13:23 ` 答复: " Neil Horman
2011-04-29 3:17 ` WeipingPan [this message]
2011-04-29 10:43 ` Neil Horman
2011-04-29 13:59 ` WeipingPan
2011-04-29 14:04 ` John Lumby
2011-04-29 15:21 ` Rick Jones
2011-04-29 17:01 ` Jay Vosburgh
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