>> Hello list, >> >> I have been reading in 'Networking with Linux on System z' from Share in >> last August (see http://linuxvm.org/Present/SHARE111/S9267kw.pdf) and I see >> something that is confusing me. In the part about qeth bonding on page 33 it >> says 'Add MAC address to eth0 & eth1 (not necessary for GuestLAN or Vswitch)' >> which suggest that bonding is also possible for multiple VNICs connected to a >> VSWITCH. From the documentation about VSWITCH LACP I get the impression this >> is not possible. Is this a slip of the author or just my bad understanding? >> Or is it possible?
>I don't see how NIC bonding has anything to do with Link Aggregation. I don't >see any reason why you wouldn't be able >to form a bond out of two virtual >NICs COUPLEd to the same VSWITCH. From the Linux perspective, they look just >like any >other eth? device. My impression was that LA works towards the device (trunk) side of a VSWITCH and bonding works towards the vNIC (port) side. Well, no matter, now you say it is possible I am missing a piece of information: how to specify the ehterchannel/trunking on the VSWITCH. Or is VSWITCH intelligent enough to find that out by itself? If so, they should learn that trick to hardware switches as well.... Best regards, Pieter Harder [email protected] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
