>> Mark, >> >> What mode did you set it up with? And do you actually see incoming data on >> both eth0 and eth1? If it is only outgoing data you are bonding it will not >> help me as Rob pointed out. My problem is with incoming. The 'Linux Ethernet >> Bonding Driver HOWTO' on sourceforge suggests you need switch cooperation to >> get incoming data on both interfaces.
>I tried both mode=1 and mode=2. Neither one seemed to make much of a >difference in getting the reception of packets to >balance over the two NICs. >(I saw some traffic on the other NIC, just not very much). I guess that's not >surprising, >since the Linux system has no control over what interface a >packet arrives on, just which one it sends on. That part, >transmitting, >seemed to work just fine in terms of being balanced. That is strange. Mode 1 is active-backup, where by definition only one nic is active. Since you can't touch the switch it is quite likely mode 2 balance-xor works out like mode 1, hence no difference. Mode 4 802.3ad aka LACP is out, and mode 0 balance-rr will probably work out the same with no etherchanneling on the switch. Ok, let's hope a VSWITCH specialist wades in. 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
