Why are all interfaces not used in bonding Mode 2 or Mode 4?

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Issue

  • Why all interfaces are not used in bonding mode=2 or mode=4 and uses only one interface?
  • In bonding mode 4 (802.3ad LACP) only specific NIC is used for receive (rx) and transmit (tx) and the rest of the NICs are not used:
eth0 - RX bytes:   58970058 (56.2 MiB)  TX bytes:20342326161 (18.9 GiB)    <-- most TX
eth1 - RX bytes:49296441110 (45.9 GiB)  TX bytes:    1872543 (1.7 MiB)    <-- most RX
eth2 - RX bytes:   66462573 (63.3 MiB)  TX bytes:    2495475 (2.3 MiB)
eth3 - RX bytes:   39914810 (38.0 MiB)  TX bytes:    4014612 (3.8 MiB)
  • Most traffic on Bonding Mode 2 is passed via one interface ethX and nearly nothing is passed via another interfaces. It is expected that both interfaces should be used so as to have more throughput.
  • Why does the outgoing network traffic only go to a specific interface in Red Hat Enterprise Linux when using bonding?
  • Traffic doesn't balance correctly across multiple interfaces when using load balancing bonding modes like 802.3ad LACP.
  • Why Link Aggregation bonding mode doesn't utilitze bandwidth of multiple NIC
  • I have configured 4x 1Gbps interfaces in a bond, why do I not get 4Gbps in iperf and other bandwidth tests?
  • Bonding performance is not as expected, it goes at the speed of a single interface, not at the speed of multiple interfaces

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Bonding or Teaming
  • Bonding Mode 2 (balance-xor)
  • Bonding Mode 4 (802.3ad) also known as LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
  • Bonding xmit_hash_policy is NOT layer3+4
  • Teaming loadbalance Runner
  • Teaming lacp Runner

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