Hello, I have the following question on the interaction between bonding/etherchannel (bonding.c) and the ARP cache. 1. Assume Machine B has N bonded Ethernet cards ( all of the them have the same IP address ). Example Scenario : Etherchannel/trunking/bonding. In this case, supposing a machine A does an ARP request for B, will it get all the MAC addresses of the N cards. Does the ARP cache store all the mappings. 2. If not, from what I understand, while doing certain types of scheduling (like Round Robin implemented in bonding.c), we will need to send packets to the same destination in a round robin manner - first packet on first card, second on second and so on. If the ARP cache stores only one MAC to IP mapping, we cannot send the packet over the second card as the second card on the destination (machine B) will not receive packets destined to first card (on machine B) because it is typically not in a promiscuous mode. How is this handled? Kindly CC the replies to my account. Thanks, Murthy. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
