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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?

802.3ad is the standards track replacement for EtherChannel, thus it is not what you
are looking for. What you are asking for is L2 failover. OpenBSD's trunk(4) is such
an implementation. I don't see anything in FreeBSD that would have the same
functionality.