Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:54:49 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> Cc: Kenny Dail <kend@amigo.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ethernet port bondage Message-ID: <20061101225449.GI3839@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <45491F6E.6090102@mawer.org> References: <20061101131455.02E5.KEND@amigo.net> <200611011607.15650.lists@jnielsen.net> <20061101145816.02E7.KEND@amigo.net> <20061101221001.GH3839@dan.emsphone.com> <45491F6E.6090102@mawer.org>
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In the last episode (Nov 02), Antony Mawer said: > On 2/11/2006 9:10 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Nov 01), Kenny Dail said: > >>Thanks for that, but I would be interested in bonding, unless in > >>the FreeBSD world that can't be achieved with failover. It's a > >>fairly straight forward setup on my Linux servers, I was thinking > >>it would be easy enough, but I haven't seen the docs for it > >>anywhere. > > > >Try ng_fec, although it really doesn't implement fec negotiation, so > >you need to hardcode the settings to match on the switch. There's > >also ng_one2many. > > I posted instructions a while ago on how to setup ng_fec along with > an HP ProCurve switch supporting FastEtherchannel -- the same should > also apply for Cisco switches. Be warned that newer HP/Cisco gear has > dropped support for FEC in favour of 802.3ad/LACP... Luckily, since neither ng_fec or ng_one2many actually do any negotiation, it doesn't matter what the other end is, as long as it's statically configured. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-September/011901.html > > I haven't experimented with ng_one2many, but my understanding is that it > only provides a "dumb" balancing/bonding solution. > > Presumably we need an ng_bonding or something along those lines would be > required to achieve parity with what Linux can provide...? Patches to add negotation to ng_fec and rename it to ng_lacp welcome :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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