[TriLUG] RAID notion applied to networking

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Sun, 24 May 2020, Alan Porter wrote:

>> but in bonding, isn't each link Layer 2? those packets won't get past the 
> other end of your first hop to your ISP?
>
>> Or are you talking about mptun for the two links?
>
> Ah, you're right... I am confusing my terminology.  Bonding is a way to tie 
> two very short distance links together for increased bandwidth. This would be 
> a layer3 link aggregation.  I am not sure what tools you would use to do this 
> aggregation.

OK but mptun seems to handle the layer 2 problem by sending
the frames in UDP packets.

https://github.com/cloudwu/mptun

Joe
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