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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: etherchannel support
In-Reply-To: <36D41640.C8E7F83F@austin.ibm.com> from venkat venkatsubra at "Feb 24, 99 09:09:52 am"
To: venkats@austin.ibm.com (venkat venkatsubra)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:36:56 -0800 (PST)
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venkat venkatsubra writes:
> Does freebsd  have support for Cisco's etherchannel ?
> That is, can i connect four ethernet/fast ethernet cards
>  on a box running freebsd to a cisco switch that supports
>  etherchannel and configure the four cards as one ether channel  ?

Not currently implemented, but this wouldn't be too hard to do
using netgraph (if you know the protocol). Just make a node
that gloms the four Ethernets into a single stream. Julian
has already come up with patches to netgraphify any Ethernet
device.

  ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html

-Archie

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