From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 14:47:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3729E37B65D; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA86215; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:47:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:47:27 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Alex Pilosov Cc: Dan Nelson , Bill Paul , , Subject: Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > Cool, if thats all it will take, I'll give it a try. But, whatever > > method Compaq/Intel is using doesn't require me to set up the ports on > > the switch as being part of a trunk. It "just works". And IIRC, when > > Its not real trunking. Your incoming traffic will still come on a > single link, only outbound traffic will be shared. (Or at least > that's how I think compaq stuff will work). Yes, I think that is how it works. I'd guess that this doesn't matter in most cases since most servers are transmitting much more data than they are receiving. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message