[ovs-discuss] transmit hash policy with lacp

[Ben Pfaff]

Yes, I'd expect that to work (assuming that "ab" means "application").

What does "ovs-appctl bond/show <bondname>" print?

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 09:39:59AM +0100, Kristoffer Egefelt wrote:
> 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.
> > > > >
> >