From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 28 14: 7:22 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 1452037B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAA143E42 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <42S9VMTL>; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:07:19 -0500 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: 'Julian Elischer' , Don Bowman Cc: Sean Chittenden , "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" , Kevin Stevens , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Annoying ARP warning messages. Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:07:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 > 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