Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing

Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:57:36 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> But what I meant was bonding's use of ARP to determine whether the
> connection is good (or rather, bad, even when the link is up), when
> the connection is routed via level 3. Seems to me you'd need a level
> 3 protocol (say ICMP) rather than ARP.

bonding isn't for layer 3. it's layer 2. layer 3 you use equal cost
multipath or other method for load balancing.

-Dan

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