From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 13:10:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (c228380-a.sfmissn1.sfba.home.com [24.20.90.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C7337B4EC; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f19LC9H00950; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:12:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102092112.f19LC9H00950@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dan Nelson Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:03:03 CST." <20010209150303.A22605@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 13:12:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've just finished scouring Cisco's documentation, and it doesn't look > like FEC is anything beyond plain old trunking (with the option of > autoconfiguration on some hardware). As long as you configure the > appropriate ports on the switch on the other end as "SA-Trunk", or > "Trunk", you should be okay. The important thing to understand is that Etherchannel is just a mechanism for selecting an outbound port in a trunk; it's completely agnostic about where stuff comes in from, and involves no peer negotiation or anything funky like one might expect. An interesting corollary of this is that Bill's code could easily be expanded to support symmetrical or asymmetrical load balancing, true link redundancy, etc. by an enterprising individual. Also, just to state the obvious - if people want this code tested with a particular piece of hardware, just send it to Bill. He can't resist that sort of temptation. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message