>On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:45:33AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On the surface, multi-path routing sounds complicated to me, while
>> layer-2 bonding seems relatively trivial to set up/administer. Since we do
>> support bonding, if it's a simple fix to make it better, we
>> might as well do that, eh?
>multipath routing is really not complicated; I don't know why it "sounds"
>complicated to you. Of course you could always add new features to the kernel
>because the existing ones which do the same thing in a better way
>"sound complicated" to someone; I doubt it is a good use of developer time
>however.
But it is still the wrong layer.
Ethernet Bonding ist "below" IP. Very handy if you want to run
something "not ip".
Regards
Henning
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