This runner can be used for two types of load balancing, active and passive. In active mode, constant re-balancing of traffic is done by using statistics of recent traffic to share out traffic as evenly as possible. In static mode, streams of traffic are distributed randomly across the available links. This has a speed advantage due to lower processing overhead. In high volume traffic applications this is often preferred as traffic usually consists of multiple stream which will be distributed randomly between the available links, in his way load sharing is accomplished without intervention by teamd.

To configure the loadbalance runner for passive transmit (Tx) load balancing, using an editor as root, add the following to the team JSON format configuration file:

{
 "device": "team0",
 "runner": {
   "name": "loadbalance",
   "tx_hash": ["eth", "ipv4", "ipv6"]
 },
 "ports": {"em1": {}, "em2": {}}
}

Configuration for hash-based passive transmit (Tx) load balancing.

To configure the loadbalance runner for active transmit (Tx) load balancing, using an editor as root, add the following to the team JSON format configuration file:

{
   "device": "team0",
   "runner": {
     "name": "loadbalance",
     "tx_hash": ["eth", "ipv4", "ipv6"],
     "tx_balancer": {
       "name": "basic"
     }
   },
   "ports": {"em1": {}, "em2": {}}
}

Configuration for active transmit (Tx) load balancing using basic load balancer.

Please see the teamd.conf(5) man page for more information.