[Xorp-users] Bonded Interfaces

[Dirk H. Schulz]

Hi David,

--On 15. März 2008 05:47:35 -0700 David Bond <david.bond at themis.com> wrote:

> Dirk,
>
> The situation is further complicated since there are pseudo interfaces
> created on the bonded interface, such as bond0:1, bond0:2, etc.

That should be no problem, since Xorp abstracts from the interface layer - 
it uses every kind of interface equally.

> Also,
> there is a requirement to forward traffic from a specific ip address to a
> different ip address using one of these pseudo interfaces. Currently
> Iptables is being used to perform this function,

You could use static routes in Xorp to get this working. It would be easier 
to troubleshoot if you do all the routing with one tool.

> but I think there is a
> conflict due to some of the messages that I'm seeing from xorp_rtrmgr.
> The error message in particular is "No Finder?".

I am sorry, but I do not know what this message means.

Dirk
>
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz at kinzesberg.de>
> To: "David Bond" <david.bond at themis.com>, xorp-users at xorp.org
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:21:11 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
> Subject: Re: [Xorp-users] Bonded Interfaces
>
> Hi David,
>
> we are using bonded interfaces with CentOS/RedHat. We have defined the
> bonding master and its slave at the operating system level and configured
> only the bonding master (that is the bonding interface) within xorp
> config  like so:
>
>>     interface bond0 {
>> 		description: "area1 bonding interface"
>> 		disable: false
>> 		vif bond0 {
>> 			disable: false
>> 			address 1.2.3.4 {
>> 				prefix-lenght: 26
>> 				broadcast: 1.2.3.5
>> 				disable: false
>> 			}
>> 		}
>
> Dirk
>
>
> --On 15. März 2008 01:53:28 -0700 David Bond <david.bond at themis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have experience using bonded interfaces with xorp? And if so,
>> do you need to define a vif for each logical interface that is part of
>> the bond? Or can you define only those logical interfaces that you want
>> xorp to control?
>>
>> David
>>
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