Messages in this thread | | | From | Matteo Croce <> | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:45:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] bonding: balance ICMP echoes in layer3+4 mode |
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 7:41 PM Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote: > > On 29/10/2019 20:35, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > > Hi Matteo, > > Wouldn't it be more useful and simpler to use some field to choose the slave (override the hash > > completely) in a deterministic way from user-space ? > > For example the mark can be interpreted as a slave id in the bonding (should be > > optional, to avoid breaking existing setups). ping already supports -m and > > anything else can set it, this way it can be used to do monitoring for a specific > > slave with any protocol and would be a much simpler change. > > User-space can then implement any logic for the monitoring case and as a minor bonus > > can monitor the slaves in parallel. And the opposite as well - if people don't want > > these balanced for some reason, they wouldn't enable it. > > > > Ooh I just noticed you'd like to balance replies as well. Nevermind >
Also, the bonding could be in a router in the middle so no way to read the mark.
-- Matteo Croce per aspera ad upstream
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