[e2e] Link Aggregation

[Valentin Ossman]

> I expect that you may run into problems with one TCP connection
because
> most routers try to avoid misordering packets of a single microflow.
> Thus,
> even though there may be several interfaces which are part of an
ethernet
> link aggregation, the traffic from a single TCP connection would
probably
> be directed towards only one of those interfaces (for a good
> implementation
> which is trying to avoid misordering).
> 

What if the 2 stations are connected point-to-point and there is no
router between them? 
Or, even better, let's suppose that the last router (connected to the
station network) knows about this link aggregation and is distributing
the packets in-order and evenly between the 2 ports to achieve higher
bandwidth.

Valentin

> Alia Atlas
> 
> At 09:56 AM 5/13/2003 -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:59 America/Montreal, Valentin Ossman
> wrote:
> >>Does any one know a link aggregation method for several network
adapters
> >>(let's say 4 Gigabit ports) in a way that it will be possible to
achieve
> >>one high bandwidth (4Gbps) TCP connection?
> >
> >IEEE have a published standard for Ethernet Link Aggregation.  I'd
> >start by looking that up.  Not clear to me that this relates to the
> >charter of this mailing list however, so followups probably belong
> >elsewhere.
> >
> >Ran
> >
>