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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:26:01 -0800
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
CC: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Network Load Balance
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Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Here is something we did at Novell many years back that worked very well for 
> load balancing across multiple adapters.  This implementation allowed up
> to four (4) adapters to function with load balancing.  To pull this off,
> you need to spoof at the MAC laer and alter the MAC addresses in the 
> header of received frames to spoof the IP stack above.  This method 
> requires **NO** changes to any protocol stacks above.

How is this different from the bonding driver(s) that are already
in the kernel?

Also, round-robin type of things seem to cause trouble by re-ordering
packets (as seen by the receiving machine).

Ben

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