From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 31 8: 0:56 2002 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 CE5D037B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:00:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A9343E6E for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from he.iki.fi (localhost.he.iki.fi [127.0.0.1]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g9VG0pYi007963; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:00:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <3DC153B3.8030007@he.iki.fi> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:00:51 +0200 From: Petri Helenius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: English [en],Finnish [fi] MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Bowman Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: ng_fec hash mechanism versus cisco etherchannel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The forwarding table points to the channel, not a specific interface on the channel. This also allows adding and dropping links on the fly. Pete Don Bowman wrote: >>From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete@he.iki.fi] >>It does not matter if you send using the other link as long >>as you send >>all packets >>for the same stream over the same link to avoid reordering. >>So yes, it does >>interoperate. >> > >can you end up with a link flap? >e.g. the catalyst does SA learning to pick the port, so it >sends it out port 1. We respond via port 2 since we use the >SIP^DIP. The catalyst switches that through to the other end, >which replies, and comes back via port 1. > >I guess this isn't tragic. > >--don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message