[ovs-discuss] Clarification on the documentation related to bonding

Vinay Bannai vbannai at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 17:44:50 UTC 2014


Reading through the 'INTERNALS" document in vswitchd directory, I saw a
statement under "Active Backup Bonding" that I would like to get clarified.


Active Backup bonds send all traffic out one "active" slave until that
slave becomes unavailable.  Since they are significantly less
complicated than SLB bonds, they are preferred when LACP is not an
option.  Additionally, they are the only bond mode which supports
attaching each slave to a different upstream switch.

The last statement implies that only Active Backup supports connecting to
different upstream switches. This seems to be incorrect as our experience
shows that we can connect to the different upstream switches for both "tlb"
and "slb" modes using LACP. If someone can clarify, I am happy to update
the section.

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Vinay Bannai
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