On Friday, 01/23/2009 at 10:54 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 1/22/2009 at 6:51 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > -snip- > > While you can have multiple vNICs on an aggregating VSWITCH, there's > > nothing that will spray/deal queued frames across the vNICs since they > > each have a unique MAC address. > > When the bonded NIC starts up, both of the slave's MAC addresses are set to be > the same. So, they're not unique.
Then this must be a Layer 3 VSWITCH where we don't care about or use guest MACs. A Layer 2 VSWITCH (required for LACP) enforces unique MACs. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
