From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 13:41:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95C516A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from bragi.housing.ufl.edu (bragi.housing.ufl.edu [128.227.47.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA0843D49 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:41:30 -0500 Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E867D7@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding Thread-Index: AcQFT+YnJhJyOdxtTYuov4a1RtfV0QABhuaA From: "Will Saxon" To: , "Jacob S. Barrett" cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:41:32 -0000 > -----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