Jan Kalcic wrote: > Hi All, > > in the document http://www.linux-ha.org/IpFailoverChannelBonding a > possible concern for HA is indicated as a disagreement with "standby" > mode which I can't totally see. > > There is mentioned that the active-backup mode defines the transmit > policy only whereas receiving is always in round robin mode. This is not > described in the Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO at all, that's > true, but I can't even get how this statement could be observed. > According to the Bonding HOWTO, in active-backup mode only one slave in > the bond is active and a different slave becomes active if, and only if, > the active slave fails. Actually, as far as I experienced this is > eventually true. The active-backup mode enables one enslaved interface > only and "disables" all the others. And this should be true for > receiving policy too, also because the NOARP option is given for each > enslaved interfaces which would exclude these to be reached from > incoming packets (maybe this is the same in round robin mode, never > tried it). Anyway, the active-backup mode, as the name suggests, sounds > to be a bit more logical with this kind of configuration rather than a > configuration where basically fault tolerance is provided for outgoing > packets and load balancing for incoming ones. > > Jan > > No replies??
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