Hello, I'm a total newbie on Open vSwitch, so my question may be stupid, but I couldn't find the answer in the documentation. As I read, Open vSwitch supports bonding of virtual interfaces. Is it possible to use it to bond several interfaces (i.e. two interfaces, which may be virtual, like GRE or PPP) that go through Internet (to another Open vSwitch I guess), with each interface having a different output gateway address? I am already doing it with the native bonding module from the Linux kernel.
On one side, I have two PPPoE links (through one NIC) each going to a different PPPoE server, each PPPoE being encapsulated in a separate GRE tunnel (the reason for GRE is because on the receiving side, there is just one NIC, and to be able to use the Linux bonding I need two links on both sides). So I'm ending up bonding two GRE interfaces on each side :-) From this gateway it goes through Internet to another machine, where I have one NIC with the two corresponding GRE interfaces, bonded with the Linux kernel bonding module. Is it possible to replace the bonding with Open vSwitch to achieve something cleaner? Also, does Open vSwitch balance each packet (like the bonding module does), or only a session (by session I mean one flow until the RST or FIN flag) through each interface? Thanks for your help, Lior
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