Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:56:29 +0000 From: "Alexandre Vieira" <nullpt@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ethernet port bondage Message-ID: <755cb9fc0611011456m5ae12523q9b71fbcec5901470@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <755cb9fc0611011450q3c00a24ah27647b577177d36c@mail.gmail.com> 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> <755cb9fc0611011450q3c00a24ah27647b577177d36c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/1/06, Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> wrote: > > On 2/11/2006 9:10 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Nov 01), Kenny Dail said: > >>>> I'm running 6.1 Release, and I've been looking for information on > >>>> how to bond multiple ethernet adaptors in one box so that if one > >>>> card or connection fails or is disconnected I still have network > >>>> connectivity. > >>> Have a look at carp(4). It's a failover solution and not a bonding > >>> one, but it sounds like that's more what you're after anyway. > >> 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... > > 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...? > > --Antony > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > Guess its about time someone start to work on a decent IPMP (solaris) like and trunking feature. In my opinion its an urgently needed implementation. cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com -- Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com
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