From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 18:27:56 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 5446616A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 18:27:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CEB743D1F for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 18:27:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015137A425; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <429766AB.6070803@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:27:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050423 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florent Thoumie References: <1117197753.2458.23.camel@ft-laptop.int.celeste.fr> In-Reply-To: <1117197753.2458.23.camel@ft-laptop.int.celeste.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 18:27:56 -0000 probably this would be better in net@freebsd.org Florent Thoumie wrote: > 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 much aspossible to add a > new node to "translate" stuff so that both could communicate > correctly. > > how you do it depends entirely on how they are doing the bonding in Linux. you do not give any clues as to what modules they are using. > This can be a dumb idea, really I've no idea since I don't know > anything about netgraph and bonding. > > >