Where does the traffic forwarded to bond0 come from, and how is it
forwarded to the bond?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:44:50PM -0500, Yi Zhang wrote:
> I added a bond interface consisted of eth1 and eth2 in active-backup mode.
> 
> Test traffic was sent to bond. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:39 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Please explain the scenario better.
> > 
> > Is the test traffic received on eth1 or eth2?  Or is received on some
> > other interface and being sent out bond0?
> > 
> >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:36:43PM -0500, Yi Zhang wrote:
> >> The test traffic was sent to bond0.  Traffic appears to be received
> >> from active eth1 and backup eth2.  This means the backup eth2
> >> responded to arp which is not expected in the active-backup mode.
> >> 
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >> 
> >>> On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Why are you sending your question as a reply to a thread from 2012?
> >>> 
> >>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:50:42PM -0500, Yi Zhang wrote:
> >>>> I am testing OVS bonding in active-backup mode (eth1 and eth2).
> >>>> However I am seeing packets being TX from both eth1 and eth2.  That is
> >>>> not what I would expect.  Any help would be appreciated.
> >>> 
> >>> I suspect that your tcpdumps are showing a packet going out from eth1
> >>> and then coming back, through the first-hop switch, on eth2 (or vice
> >>> versa).  I don't know how to tell whether this is happening from tcpdump
> >>> output.
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