[ovs-dev] [bond docs 1/4] vswitch.xml: active-backup and balance-slb bonds must be one-sided.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Tue Aug 14 20:44:40 UTC 2012
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:40:04PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > For balance-slb the results shouldn't be as obviously bad, but balance-slb
> > is definitely not designed considering that situation, so this commit
> > generalizes the advice across balance-slb also.
>
> FWIW balance-slb can't work for the same reason. They could choose
> different active interfaces, in which case all broadcast traffic will
> be dropped. (Haven't reviewed this patch).
Thanks, I changed that paragraph in the commit message to:
The same is true of balance-slb because multicast and broadcast
traffic is dropped on ingress to any interface other than the active
interface.
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