[Server-devel] Using bridges and interrupt load

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Alexander Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com> wrote:
> If the only purpose of the bridge devices is to "hold IP configuration" for
> enslaved physical interfaces (and not to provide layer-2 bridging between
> e.g. different mesh channels so that broadcast / discovery works between the
> different channels) then you might be able to use the channel bonding
> (bond0, bond1, etc.) driver instead.  If you need bridging for the mesh
> interfaces, but not the LAN and/or WAN interfaces, you could mix-and-match
> both types of master (virtual) interfaces.

Good hint. Looking into it, thanks! And thanks to Jerry for the
confirmation that it's a real issue.

Is there any interesting downside / overhead to be aware when using
for example bond0 == eth1?

cheers,



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