[j-nsp] Soft removal of traffic from AE?

[Saku Ytti]

On 28 October 2016 at 15:06, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen at imacandi.net> wrote:
> If you use LACP on the link, to mitigate the packets loss, set it to fast
> and then just yank the cable from the switch. The traffic will be rehashed
> on the remaining links and at most you'll lose around 1 second worth of
> traffic.

LACP actually has provision for hitless addition and removal. However,
even if that is so, hash bucket will redistribute traffic, which may
cause reordering, which TCP stack will interpret as packet loss.


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