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.
BTW when you would teach bonding about flows it wouldn't be layer-2 anymore.
To kill the "sounds complicated" myth:
ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 nexthop dev eth0 nexthop dev eth1
gives you a multipath route with eth0 and eth1 with the same weight for
10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0. If you replace 10.0.0.0/8 with default it'll
be your default route. The kernel does the rest.
-Andi
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