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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:41:30 -0500
From:      "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
To:        <eberkut@minithins.net>, "Jacob S. Barrett" <jbarrett@amduat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding
Message-ID:  <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E867D7@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: eberkut [mailto:eberkut@minithins.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:57 PM
> To: Jacob S. Barrett
> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding
>=20
>=20
> > I would have liked to have used either ng_fec or=20
> ng_one2many, but neither
> > of them detects link failures.
>=20
> According to the original ng_fec announcement [1] on=20
> freebsd-net, ng_fec
> should be able to detect link failure by checking the=20
> interfaces in the
> bundle once every second.
>=20
> Even though I don't "speak" C fluently, I think ng_fec_tick=20
> in ng_fec.c
> [2] should do the trick.
>=20
> [1]
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D448009+0+archive/
> 2001/freebsd-net/20010211.freebsd-net
> [2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/netgraph/ng_fec.c

Regardless, it doesn't look like ng_fec can work with ng_vlan, since
it doesn't provide any hooks to work with.

-Will



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