From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 12:42:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC5816A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 12:42:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF0D43D49 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 12:42:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A13011B4C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:45:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 66288-05 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:45:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ALagny-106-1-4-180.w80-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.14.230.180]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BF511438 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:45:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Florent Thoumie To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:42:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1117197753.2458.23.camel@ft-laptop.int.celeste.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: Subject: Linux/FreeBSD Channel Bonding Interoperability X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:42:43 -0000 Hey list. I'm advocating for FreeBSD for about 6 months now where I'm working and they have the project to build their own router (which will probably be based on WRAP). The good point is that the actual solution is running Linux but it's not highly reliable. The bad point is that they're using channel bonding (on both peers) and they don't want to change one (or at least the system it runs). I've read about ng_fec and ng_onetomany, so I know channel bonding is quite easy (seems so, according to web pages I've found) but I guess FreeBSD and Linux won't work correctly. If that's the case, I wondered if it could be possible to add a new node to "translate" stuff so that both could communicate correctly. This can be a dumb idea, really I've no idea since I don't know anything about netgraph and bonding. -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org