>>> On 1/23/2009 at 1:24 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 01/23/2009 at 10:54 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- >> 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.
Nope, it's Layer 2. If I tried to use a Layer 3, it didn't work. (It would appear to, but the system wouldn't think there was a link established.) It may be that the MAC is viewed as being the same by the kernel, but the VSWITCH doesn't modify it's control blocks to match. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
