On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 04:23:12PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > > Presumably there is some disadvantage to "fast" mode, since it is not > > the default--I guess that a little latency somewhere can cause > > spurious port-down detection--and so maybe we should document that > > disadvantage. > > I don't think there is really a disadvantage of fast mode. Most > implementations default to slow so I followed. LACP isn't really > intended to be used as a link state detection protocol, it's really > only intended for bonding configuration information. This information > changes very slowly (e.g. only when someone moves a cable), and in > most cases changes cause transmits anyway. Without a reason to enable > fast by default, I think people choose slow cause it spits less stuff > on the wire.
That's a good explanation, thank you. Maybe some subset of it could go in the docs. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
