Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:26:37 -0700 From: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> To: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <19990515002636.A28747@tch.org> In-Reply-To: <199905150328.UAA27064@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>; from John Milford on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:55PM -0700 References: <ser@tch.org> <199905150328.UAA27064@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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This is not how Etherchannel works. Anyone from cisco here care to explain better than I possibly could? On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:55PM -0700, John Milford wrote: > > You have to have the capibility on the switch, and enable it > first. It is called EtherChannel by Cisco, and it is 2 or 4 ports > that all have the same MAC addr plugged into the switch, and the > switch treats them as one interface. > > > --John > > > Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> wrote: > > > > > > > You need a switch to do this. If your clients are on the same ethernet as > > > your server, they can only talk to one MAC address. That means you only ge > t > > > the bandwidth of one interface. If you have a switch that can bond ports > > > together, you can use both cards at the same time, transparently to everybo > dy > > > but the driver and the switch. I know that NetWare supports this, as do so > me > > > Bay switch, and surely some Cisco stuff. > > > > > > > Having 2 ethernet cards with the same mac address on two different ports > > of all the cisco switches I have used (1100-6500) will confuse the hell > > out of them :). I've seen it happen. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Steve Rubin - ser@tch.org - http://www.tch.org/~ser/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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