<html><head></head><body><div>For incoming balance doesn't there have to be a shared MAC between the multiple interfaces? Otherwise, the upstream routers will send to the first connected interface.</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 12:44 -0400, James Sumners wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I have a system with two NICs bonded together and the bonding mode is set to balance-alb. From my understanding of the documentation, this mode should balance incoming traffic as well as outgoing; maybe not 1:1 on the incoming, but fairly close. That's not what I'm seeing. I see traffic coming in on one interface and leaving on both.<div><br></div><div>Has anyone seen this before? Or have any ideas on what could be going on?<br><div><br></div><div>```</div><div><div># cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0</div><div>Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)</div><div><br></div><div>Bonding Mode: adaptive load balancing</div><div>Primary Slave: None</div><div>Currently Active Slave: em2</div><div>MII Status: up</div><div>MII Polling Interval (ms): 100</div><div>Up Delay (ms): 0</div><div>Down Delay (ms): 0</div><div><br></div><div>Slave Interface: em1</div><div>MII Status: up</div><div>Speed: 1000 Mbps</div><div>Duplex: full</div><div>Link Failure Count: 0</div><div>Permanent HW addr: <redacted></div><div>Slave queue ID: 0</div><div><br></div><div>Slave Interface: em2</div><div>MII Status: up</div><div>Speed: 1000 Mbps</div><div>Duplex: full</div><div>Link Failure Count: 0</div><div>Permanent HW addr: <redacted></div><div>Slave queue ID: 0</div></div><div>```<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)</div><div><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)</div><div><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (band page)</div></div></div></div></div>
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