[ovs-discuss] transmit hash policy with lacp

[Ben Pfaff]

Looking at the documentation, it says, "such as destination MAC
address, IP address, and TCP port."  The phrase "such as" introduces a
list of examples and is not meant to be exclusive.

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 07:52:08AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Does it say destination IP/port only?  At any rate, balance-tcp balances
> on L2 through L4 packet headers, including source and destination ports.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 11:10:18AM +0100, Kristoffer Egefelt wrote:
> > Ahh, yes - balance-tcp.
> > I'ts balancing using destination ip/port - is it possible to do source
> > ip/port balancing?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Kristoffer Egefelt wrote:
> > > > Outbound traffic seems to depend on SLB bonding (where a source switch
> > > port
> > > > is needed for every session to utilize a link).
> > > > Is it somehow possible to use policies like the linux kernel bonding
> > > driver
> > > > is offering? (layer2+3 / layer3+4) ?
> > >
> > > Yes.  See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for configuration details.
> > >