On 1/11/2011 10:05 AM, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> I guess you need to look at the bonding src code - looks like it is in >> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c - for CentOS 5 it is: > > C xor is bitwise. > > I did a bit of scripting and found that the algorithm seems much more > sensitive to port numbers than IP addresses. Not that iperf gives much > control over those, it looks like the client port numbers are picked at > random. As a result, I would expect to repeat this test on the same set > of clients, say, hundreds of times, and maybe find a small number of > cases where all interfaces are utilised. Hashing 4 values to 4 targets seems like collisions would be likely no matter how you do it. The TX packet/byte values from ifconfig on the NICs should show how much went out each interface. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com