On 08/30/99 16:37:05 you wrote:
I don't believe that the NetApp implementation rememebers the interface on which the request came in. I think that it simply remembers the last interface on which a packet came in from a certain host. A sort of "arp" table.
I've been told in the past by software coders "in the know" that at least for some NFS/CIFS packets, Netapp indeed remembers the interface on which the request came in, and that generall the request would go out the same interface. However, certain unusual circumstances with CIFS or ATM could change that. The information I had at the time was not as strong as the statement posted here that it *always* went back out the same interface for all packets. Either the code has been beefed up to ensure this feature, or it's really more complicated than that.
Bruce