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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: etherchannel support
To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:54:56 +0100 (MET)
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> > 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

hmm... i see it easy for incoming path, but what about the outgoing ?
How do you chose which interface to use for output, what about load
balancing, etc ?

	luigi


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