[clue-tech] What does balance-alb do?

[David L. Willson]

Never mind, I need to RTFM faster.  Here's my answer:
http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/bonding.html

David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
MCT, MCSE, Linux+
tel://720.333.LANS

----- "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:

> This is weird.  I bonded two interfaces on an NFS server, thinking it
> would help throughput.  It appears that all the box is doing is
> sending through one NIC and receiving through the other.  While that
> might get better results than duplexing on a single NIC, it doesn't
> seem like a load-balance...  What do you make of these statistics?
> 
> kadmin at Kiosk-L7:~$ ifconfig
> bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:d6:ed:66  
>           inet addr:10.0.1.37  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fed6:ed66/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:283902195 errors:0 dropped:172 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:208435757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:313535367617 (292.0 GB)  TX bytes:129263373787
> (120.3 GB)
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:d6:ed:67  
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1117854 errors:0 dropped:172 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:195187304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:96213855 (91.7 MB)  TX bytes:127753329882 (118.9
> GB)
>           Base address:0x3000 Memory:da300000-da320000 
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:48:d6:ed:66  
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:282784341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:13248453 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:313439153762 (291.9 GB)  TX bytes:1510043905 (1.4
> GB)
>           Base address:0x4000 Memory:da400000-da420000 
> 
> 
> David L. Willson
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> MCT, MCSE, Linux+
> tel://720.333.LANS
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