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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:42:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        venkats@austin.ibm.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: etherchannel support
Message-ID:  <199902261842.KAA84519@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902260654.HAA24889@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Feb 26, 99 07:54:56 am"

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Luigi Rizzo 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
> 
> 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 ?

Well, what does Cisco do?

-Archie

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