[f-nsp] Link Aggregation on ICX 6450

[tcsillag at interware.hu]

The linux bond driver is flexinle, can be configured for layer 2/3/4 hashing, active-standby or round-robin.

Tamas

niels=foundry-nsp at bakker.net wrote:

>* drew.weaver at thenap.com (Drew Weaver) [Mon 25 Mar 2013, 19:41 CET]:
>>Ah, I just noticed that it configured one port as primary and one 
>>port as secondary and it appears to be using only one of them.
>
>That's Foundry terminology.  The first port is the primary port, all 
>additional ports are labeled secondary.  This has no influence on 
>traffic balancing.
>
>
>>Currently I am running iperf from 1 virtual machine inside of the 
>>server connected to 1/1/40 & 1/1/41 to multiple VMs which reside on 
>>systems connected to multiple different ports.
>[..]
>>Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
>
>Does this mean source or destination MAC address?  If the former, this 
>perfectly explains your observed load-balancing mismatch.
>
>Either way, your Brocade switch is obviously only able to balance its 
>own output traffic; it does not select what port it receives traffic 
>on.  As you didn't include the output line for the first port in your 
>cut&pasted CLI output I assume that it balances ok, so there is no 
>problem with your Brocade switch.  This may not be the best list to 
>debug Linux LACP implementation details for you.
>
>
>	-- Niels.
>
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