Re: [PROPOSAL] Network Load Balance

Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:26:01 -0800

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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