Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:13:18 +0200 From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: archie@whistle.com, venkats@austin.ibm.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etherchannel support Message-ID: <36D70E6E.1D38995E@sms.fi> References: <199902261800.TAA26142@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > > > > Does freebsd have support for Cisco's etherchannel ? > > > ... > > > > > 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? > > > > > > hey, i asked first! > > > > > > cheers > > > luigi > > > > > They XOR the low byte of the source and destination mac addresses and use > > 1-3 low order bits to determine the link to transmit on. (etherchannel > > supports > > at least up to 8 links between two devices) > > hmm... so if all your cards use the same mac address (which could > be useful to simplify life when doing ARP-related stuff etc) you > effectively only use one link ? > That would be true only if you talk only to one host on the same VLAN. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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