Thanks Axel and Stephen. I am planning to use Linux at both ends. I didn't get a chance to verify the setup today but will try and get something going tomorrow. --- Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:10:37PM -0400, Ravi > Ramamirtham wrote: > > Hi, > > This may sound crazy but I will go ahead anyway. > Here's my scenario: > > > > ifconfig bond0 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > > ifenslave bond0 eth0 > > ifenslave bond0 eth1 > > > > brctl addbr stp0 > > brctl addif stp0 bond0 > > brctl stp stp0 on > > > > Is this a valid scenario? I am trying to bond two > interfaces and run STP > > over the bonded interface..The problem I am trying > to solve is to run STP > > over aggregated links between two nodes. Any > suggestions/pointers would be > > much appreciated. > > Just happened that I asked the same 9 days ago: > > http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2007-April/001764.html > > Depending on the switch on the other side of the > wire, you will get > the arp packets you send out on the other link of > the bond. This will > make an outgoing arp packet register on the internal > port of the > bridge and reregister a couple of ms later on the > outer port. > > This leads to packets loss of > 99%, e.g. a 2x1GB > bond degarded to > 70kB/sec. > > It would be nice if the bridging code could prevent > this. Either by > identifying the outgoing arp packet that immediately > returns and not > updating the forwarding database, or allowing to > hardcode some static > arp entries into the forwarding database. > -- > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
