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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:06:39 -0600
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: etherchannel 
Message-ID:  <200010122106.e9CL6dE22139@orthanc.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:35 PDT." <200010122040.e9CKeZh01234@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 

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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

    Mike> This is primarily conditional on Cisco or some other party
    Mike> making the specifications for etherchannel freely available.
    Mike> The last time I went looking for any actual documentation on
    Mike> how to format things on the wire, I drew a complete blank.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/techno/media/lan/ether/channel/prodlit/faste_an.htm

It's pretty simple -- just an XOR of the bottom two bits of the destination
MAC address to determine which interface in the bundle to send the packet
out.

--lyndon


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