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List:       bonding-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bonding-devel] balance-ip anyone?
From:       Shmulik Hen <shmulik.hen () intel ! com>
Date:       2003-11-09 7:20:11
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 11:44 pm, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>         The only problem I see is the bane of our existance:
> backwards compatibility.

We thought we can preserve backward compatibility by not taking over 
the current mode module param, but rather come up with two new 
params. We still need to think of better names for them, but the 
first one would mean "teaming mode" while the other one would mean 
"transmit policy". This way, if some one wants to keep using, lets 
say, mode=4, that would be interpreted by the modules as:
"teaming mode"="dynamic link aggregation", "policy"="XOR-MAC", and 
everything else would stay the same. This would be a seemless change 
for users wanting to keep what exists, while letting others play with 
their configuration until they get exactly what they want.

>         What I think might be preferable is to tie this in with
> Amir's new dynamic scheme ("hot operations" I think he calls it). 
> Which is probably how you're doing it; my guess is that this
> rearrangement is driven by the new create/destroy system.

Actually, we're not thinking of tying the two together since the hot 
ops is well on its way while this new thing is just being defined.

-- 
| Shmulik Hen   Advanced Network Services  |
| Israel Design Center, Jerusalem          |
| LAN Access Division, Platform Networking |
| Intel Communications Group, Intel corp.  |



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