[ovs-discuss] transmit hash policy with lacp

[Kristoffer Egefelt]

I see.
Then shouldn't a simple ab with 2 or more sessions balance the traffic
across 2 uplinks, using source port hashing?
It looks like this is not the case when I'm testing on v1.3.0...

Thanks

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > > >
>
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