From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 15 0:26:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tch.org (tacostand.tch.org [199.74.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F4A14D23 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 00:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser@tch.org) Received: (from ser@localhost) by tch.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA29257; Sat, 15 May 1999 00:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:26:37 -0700 From: Steve Rubin To: John Milford Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <19990515002636.A28747@tch.org> References: <199905150328.UAA27064@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199905150328.UAA27064@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>; from John Milford on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:55PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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