Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:11 PM Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
In openSUSE, would this be related to bonding slaves?
LACP is quite old, I wonder if Netgear is providing the hardware version, i.e. let the switch do the work? We have had network interface bonding in Linux for at least 10-12 years, also with LACP. We are using it, but I don't recall needing anything special in the switches. (I didn't do the setup).
The switch I referenced said it supported IEEE 802.3ad - LAGs (LACP).
I am curious how the switch could manage this. That is, how would the server know to send out data on the various interfaces when they are aggregated later? I would imagine that the switch would assign an address to the aggregated ports. It's how the server knows this and acts accordingly that I'm curious about.
Me too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation#Linux_bonding_driver seems to imply that the linux bonding driver is a software version of this.
Yes, that is also how I understand it. I guess we're not using LACP in our setup. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org