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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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