Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Kelly Byrd wrote: > > How is mode 0 better or worse than mode 5 or 6? > It's better in the sense that it has no prerequisites, mode 6 has the most: <quote> 1. Ethtool support in the base drivers for retrieving the speed of each slave. 2. Base driver support for setting the hw address of a device also when it is open. This is required so that there will always be one slave in the team using the bond hw address (the current_slave) while having a unique hw address for each slave in the bond. If the current_slave fails it's hw address is swapped with the new current_slave that was chosen. </quote>