On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:50:17PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > > So I'd be tempted to say 'tough luck' if all your ports are not up, and > the ones that are are assigned statically to the same CPU port. It's a > compromise between flexibility and simplicity, and I would go for > simplicity here. That's the most you can achieve with static assignment, > just put the CPU ports in a LAG if you want better dynamic load balancing > (for details read on below). >
Many switches such as mv88e6xxx only support MAC DA/SA load balancing, which make it not ideal in router application (Router WAN <--> ISP BRAS traffic will always have the same DA/SA and thus use only one port).
