Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding

From: Willy Tarreau (wtarreau@free.fr)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 02:04:00 EST


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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