> Oh and this is going to cause out-of-order delivery and slow down user applications by a lot (because of channel bonding that looks like it's just left at the defaults),

Doesn't lag default to hashing by something? I expect it to use the rss hash, or src/dest ip and hopefully port.

On the number of layers, I totally agree. You can't fix the problems that come from having too many layers with more layers. And, you'll never get those delays back. If this really adds 5 ms (in each direction!), that's wild, but it would be clearly visible in pings... 10 ms round trip to get onto the network is like moving your servers 300 miles away from everyone.

> Wish someone would pay me to do that.

I feel you. Everyonce in a while, I get to do some really neat networking stuff, but I don't know how to make that my whole job.