Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:07:18 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Julian Elischer' <julian@elischer.org>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <carnero@icrt.cu>, Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Annoying ARP warning messages. Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022DBD@mail.sandvine.com>
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> From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@elischer.org] > > 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. > I assume you mean with a user-mode daemon, sort of a LACPD, like in the linux model? (http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~yumo/), and then a version of one2many that did the src^dst hash to prevent re-ordering? Or would you implement the control protocol inside netgraph as well? On a side note, is there anything netgraph can't solve :) --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
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