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dtsteinb
Aspirant
Aug 08, 2018

Adaptive Load Balancing

I have the 2 NIC cards in my switch and when I went to create a new bond and use  Adaptive Load Balancing I lost all access to it.  I had to turn it off, unplug the ethernet cables and various other things until it finally came back but it doesn't appear to be bonded.

Is there something speical I need to do?  I thought a special switch was not needed for this type of bonding?  

I thought I could do this during business hrs, if it dropped for a minute I could deal with that but this took 30 minutes before I could get it back online

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Aug 08, 2018
    dtsteinb wrote:

    I thought a special switch was not needed for this type of bonding?  

     

    It isn't, but I've seen some other cases where it misbehaves.  Full loss of network is worse than the other cases I heard of. 

     

    Perhaps try TLB and see if it works out better. 

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User
        Aug 09, 2018
        dtsteinb wrote:

        Would Round Robin be better?

        Yes, but Round Robin requires switch support (setting up a static LAG on the switch).

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