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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:06:27 -0800 (PST)
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To: shmulik.hen@intel.com
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Subject: Re: [Bonding][patch] Adding Transmit load balancing mode to bonding
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: shmulik.hen@intel.com
   Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:38:02 +0200 (IST)

   Balancing is connection oriented (e.g. by IPv4 destination address)
   so packet order is always kept.

You could also key off of the destination/source port as well for
UDP/TCP/SCTP.  Have you experimented with this?
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