From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 28 14: 0:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CEE37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-206-8.client.attbi.com [12.232.206.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F30043E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA25501; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:40:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:40:25 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Don Bowman Cc: Sean Chittenden , "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" , Kevin Stevens , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Annoying ARP warning messages. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Don Bowman wrote: > From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@elischer.org] > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > > In this example, does the xl0 interface share the same MAC address? > > > > umm actually, yes.. sends switches insane.. :-) > > if you don't do the step about source Mac address replacement > > then they have different addresses. (though I can't guarantee that) > > Is there support for 802.3ad in FreeBSD? This would be the best > way to gang interfaces together in a standard fashion. It involves > LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol), which prevents loops > @ L2 (I think its an extension of STP). Packet reordering is also > solved (the simple round robin scheme achieves rather poor performance > due to this problem). > This could be (relatively) easy in netgraph.. it was designed for that sort of thing. > Another way to do it is with OSPF ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath Routing), > depends on whether you think L2 is cool or L3 :) > > --don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message