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

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