On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:47:49PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Are you clear on exactly what loadbalance does?
>
> A hash of
> the protocol header is used to maintain packet ordering.
> The hash includes the Ethernet source and destination
> address, and, if available, the VLAN tag, and the IP source
> and destination address.
>
> In this mode, traffic between two individual IP/MAC addresses on
> the same vlan will only use a single port, you need multiple addresses
> to see the traffic balanced between multiple ports.
I think that's clear. The problem experienced was half the TCP sessions
failing to connect. It's unclear why, as my testing was limited to
flood pings and tcpbench. Both of which appeared flawless. I'm running
roundrobin in production, now, and will schedule more test time for
loadbalance ... with multiple generators.
