From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Oct 12 14: 6:52 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (207-167-15-66.dsl.worldgate.ca [207.167.15.66])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id A039037B503; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:06:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by orthanc.ab.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e9CL6dE22139;
	Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:06:39 -0600 (MDT)
Message-Id: <200010122106.e9CL6dE22139@orthanc.ab.ca>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: etherchannel 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:35 PDT."
             <200010122040.e9CKeZh01234@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:06:39 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

>>>>> "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


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message