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receiving Ethernet interface fails, the other slave takes
over the MAC address of the failed receiving slave.
Balance-tlb mode provides load balancing and fault
tolerance.
Balance-alb
(Adaptive Load
Balancing)
Balance-alb is similar to balance-tlb but also attempts
to redistribute incoming (receive load balancing) for
IPV4 traffic. This setup does not require any special
switch support or configuration. The receive load
balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation sent by the
local system on their way out and overwrites the
source hardware address with the unique hardware
address of one of the Ethernet interfaces in the bond
such that different peers use different hardware
address for the server. This mode provides load
balancing and fault tolerance.
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