Re: How usable is agr(4)?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 15:16 Uhr +0200 09.06.2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> The balance is done based on a hash of the source and destination
> MAC addresses. So if your traffic is going though a router, you won't have
> load-balancing.

There's the rub: The server sits in its own subnet. So while other 
(server) machines in that subnet would access it, most of the load 
comes from other subnets.

>  If the clients are local (and there's enough of them)
> I would expect it to work.

Pity, it sounded like a good idea... but will only add overhead, as it is.

Thanks for the explanation,

        hauke

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