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Date:      Wed, 12 Oct 1988 10:55:03 -0400
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        Andreas Brodmann <andreas.brodmann@gmaare.migros.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: etherchannel / bonding
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.19881012105254.02a77070@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001012080019.49369A-100000@shell-2.enteract .com>
References:  <5.0.0.25.0.20001011160606.02538a90@mail.etinc.com>

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At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
>
>:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD
>:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad
>:term (no doubt coined by the linux camp).
>:
>
>It's telco usage from before there was a linux (and probably before
>there was a Linus), so it's rather unlikely that they're responsible for
>it.


No, telcos used the term "bonding" for ISDN, which actually IS a physical 
bonding technique. Its all the half-wits that think that load balancing is 
the same thing that now associate virtual techniques to something very 
different.

DB




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