[ovs-dev] communicatin failed with combination of ovs and linux native bonding

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:30 PM, 渔舟 <yuzhou at mogujie.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
> Communication failed happened sometimes (about fifty-fifty) with combination of ovs
> and linux native bonding( 802.3ad mode), but if I use ovs own bonding(lacp=active) instead,
> the failure disappeared, any ideas?
>
> I read below post, which mentioned that "it may not be possible to use the Linux bonding at
> the same time as Open vSwitch for Linux before 2.6.36", but I failed to get deeper info about that .
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-September/004407.html

That post was referring to a different mode of bonding other than LACP
(which did not exist in OVS at the time). The type of issues referred
there should not affect LACP so I don't think there is an inherent
problem.

What is the issue?