[f-nsp] LACP with Foundry and Linux Machine

[Rupesh Basnet]

Hi Raoul,

With trunk on foundry and mode 4 on linux box with load balancing on l2 
hash mode, load balance was happening is asymmetric way. IN traffic was 
seen from one and  OUT traffic was seen from another interface. I think 
server mode on foundry might help but it seems we need to reload to 
reconfigure it. Are there any way out for proper load balancing?

Regards,
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Rupesh Basnet

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On 03/30/2014 11:41 AM, Raoul Bhatia wrote:
> On 30 March 2014 07:12:08 CEST, Rupesh Basnet <brupesh at subisu.net.np> wrote:
>> Hi Erich,
>>
>> I tried changing LACP rates with mode 4 but status was the same and
>> linux box was also not able to get partner MAC on its aggregation
>> status. I tried with balance-rr mode as well but same, only single MAC
>> was obtained under Load Balancing on foundry. I can pass traffic from
>> the bonded interface but still don't have any idea if those interfaces
>> are really bonded and load balance is happening.
> Hi,
>
> It has been some time since I was last configuring bonding but I *think* that balancing happened on the basis of MAC addresses, (or even ports?) or some other part of the packet header.
>
> So while testing, you might see balancing only after using multiple streams and source/destination MACs.
>
> Cheers,
> Raoul