11 May
2009
11 May
'09
4:48 p.m.
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
... There are "legitimate" cases where you might want to do this.
NetApp filers consider this to be a legitimate configuration, even a "supported and recommended one". If I understand the documentation correctly, NetApp will (somehow) remember the physical interface a request arrived on, and make sure to its send replies out same. It sounds like a slight breakage of the expected behavior in order to gain load-sharing for their multiple NICs attached to the same subnet. IIRC, you can turn the feature off if it makes an issue. --D