From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 12 8:15: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bsdconspiracy.net (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776DC37B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zaphod.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com ident=wes) by bsdconspiracy.net with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #1) id 13jk0d-0007Ht-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:11:03 -0700 Message-ID: <368DD25C.BD979DA6@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 01:01:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Cc: David Scheidt , Andreas Brodmann , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etherchannel / bonding References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001011160606.02538a90@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.0.25.0.19881012105254.02a77070@mail.etinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis wrote: > > At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: > > > >:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD > >:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad > >:term (no doubt coined by the linux camp). > >: > > > >It's telco usage from before there was a linux (and probably before > >there was a Linus), so it's rather unlikely that they're responsible for > >it. > > No, telcos used the term "bonding" for ISDN, which actually IS a physical > bonding technique. Its all the half-wits that think that load balancing is > the same thing that now associate virtual techniques to something very > different. The term was used to describe any channel aggregation when I worked for GTE, before Linus went to college, and before ISDN was really known in the USA. The Spacenet boys even used it to describe mutiplying bandwidth on satellite channels. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message