Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding

[Julian Elischer]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Will Saxon wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: eberkut [mailto:eberkut at minithins.net]
> > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:57 PM
> > To: Jacob S. Barrett
> > Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding
> > 
> > 
> > > I would have liked to have used either ng_fec or 
> > ng_one2many, but neither
> > > of them detects link failures.
> > 
> > According to the original ng_fec announcement [1] on 
> > freebsd-net, ng_fec
> > should be able to detect link failure by checking the 
> > interfaces in the
> > bundle once every second.
> > 
> > Even though I don't "speak" C fluently, I think ng_fec_tick 
> > in ng_fec.c
> > [2] should do the trick.
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=448009+0+archive/
> > 2001/freebsd-net/20010211.freebsd-net
> > [2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/netgraph/ng_fec.c
> 
> Regardless, it doesn't look like ng_fec can work with ng_vlan, since
> it doesn't provide any hooks to work with.
> 

It could be rewritten to be a real netgraph node but I don't have teh
time to do it..



> -Will
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