IP Networking

Hello,

I've been using mode 4 with four slaves, however looking at ifconfig showed that the traffic was not balanced correctly between the interfaces, the outgoing traffic has been alot higher on the last slave.

Example:

eth0 RX 123.2 GiB TX 22.5 GiB
eth1 RX 84.8 GiB TX 8.3 GiB
eth2 RX 198.7 GiB TX 11.1 GiB
eth3 RX 78.2 GiB TX 1.7 TiB

A) What could possibly be the source of such an issue?
B) Is it possible to make two bond interfaces in mode 4 and then have them round-robin?

Something like this:

bond0 (mode 4)
*eth0
*eht1
bond1 (mode 4)
*eth2
*eth3

and then have both round-robin, so:

bond2 (mode 0)
*bond0
*bond1

Any help is highly appreciated and thanks in advance guys

It does have the lowest Rx, it just likes to talk? Maybe the talk suppresses others on the collision domain, so it appears to be the fastest way out, which makes more talk, suppression. Some systems are naturally unstable in subtle ways.

That doesn't really help.

Nothng extra running on, or pointing to, that slave? Is that IP in the DNS? Maybe some sample snooping will show if there is something special about that huge send traffic. Snapping the stats a frequet intervas to a flat file would allow you to see when there is some special activity, like a net backup.