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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>
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Subject: Re: 802.3ad?
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:56:24PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> Following an unrelated discussion about "interface grouping" in OpenBSD,
> I'd like to know if there are any known or planned implementations of LACP (802.3ad)
> interface teaming in FreeBSD?
> FreeBSD currently has etherchannel support, but to my knowledge that will only
> work for a link to a single switch and not provide the possibility of having layer
> 2 resiliance with paths to 2 switches in the same network.
> Any thoughts on this?

NetBSD has an implementation which would be a good starting place for
anyone looking into this.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/net/agr/


Andrew