Vinay, some switches have support for multi-chassis link aggregation (often called MLAG). For MLAG-capable switches, you should be able to use any LACP-based bonding mechanism across multiple **correctly configured** switches. However, in the absence of MLAG support, LACP-based bonding types cannot be used across multiple upstream switches.
Does that help at all? On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Vinay Bannai <[email protected]> wrote: > Reading through the 'INTERNALS" document in vswitchd directory, I saw a > statement under "Active Backup Bonding" that I would like to get clarified. > > Active Backup bonds send all traffic out one "active" slave until that > slave becomes unavailable. Since they are significantly less > complicated than SLB bonds, they are preferred when LACP is not an > option. Additionally, they are the only bond mode which supports > attaching each slave to a different upstream switch. > > The last statement implies that only Active Backup supports connecting to > different upstream switches. This seems to be incorrect as our experience > shows that we can connect to the different upstream switches for both "tlb" > and "slb" modes using LACP. If someone can clarify, I am happy to update the > section. > > -- > Vinay Bannai > Email: [email protected] > Google Voice: 415 938 7576 > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
