[asterisk-dev] Asterisk scalability

[Ian FREISLICH]

Benny Amorsen wrote:
> John Todd <jtodd at digium.com> writes:
> 
> > In fact, it seems like a great idea in general to have multiple
> > cards even under moderate load, since even with IRQ balancing (which
> > apparently doesn't actually work) there is one CPU that takes all
> > the interrupts from a single card. Plus, 802.3ad seems like a quick
> > way to get some wiring redundancy even though you're keeping your
> > other single points of failure intact (primary system, upstream
> > switch.)
> 
> Your only challenge with bonding is to make sure that all streams are
> kept on the same physical interface. I think that is done by default
> in 802.3ad (based on a hash of the ip-adresses and ports involved), so

Do you have a switch that can do that?  Most of the switches that
I've seen only look at layer 2 and hash on src and dst MAC address.

Ian

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Ian Freislich