Adaptive Load Balancing

[dtsteinb]

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

[StephenB]

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@dtsteinb wrote:

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

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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. 

[dtsteinb]

Would Round Robin be better?

[StephenB]

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@dtsteinb wrote:

Would Round Robin be better?

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

[dtsteinb]

Will try TLB first then.