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>From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-ha- >[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terry >Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:41 AM >To: [email protected] <snip> >Subject: [Linux-HA] 802.3ad bonding not using all interfaces equally >I think the reason why I see one interface dominating RX and another >dominating TX is due to the xmit_hash_policy but there are three hosts that >use this particular server for network traffic. That's 3 different physical mac >addresses. The layer2 algorithm should be fine in that situation I would >think. What am I missing? Would I just be better off with balance-rr? > You are correct that the results you are seeing are a result of the hashing policy in use. You have also come across and described a situation (small number of clients) where multiple links aggregated will not achieve very good balancing results. If you will truly need greater than Gigabit speeds, in particular if you'll need to heavily utilize all ports, then you will need to change your balancing strategy in some way. Your other option, and the one I generally prefer, is to simply move to 10Gig. All balancing strategies have their limitations, and the only real way around them is to move to a faster connection so you aren't as reliant on the load-balancing. - Brad _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
