[LARTC] bandwidth aggregation between 2 hosts in the same subnet

[Grant Taylor]

On 07/30/07 15:48, Ralf Gross wrote:
> I tried this setup a while ago. Both hosts were connected to a Cisco
> switch. On the linux hosts I created bond0 interfaces (round robin)
> and the switch ports on both switches were configured as Port
> Channels.

Seeing as how this is a short coming of the switch I don't think that 
having the Linux box solve this on layer 3 will do any good.  Mainly 
this is because the switch that the Linux box is connected to will still 
only use one of the ports in the EtherChannel group to send the traffic 
out, thus yielding a drop in throughput no matter what.

In short, I think you are going to have to solve your switch(s) Layer 2 
problem before you do any thing else.  Sorry. :(



Grant. . . .