Plans to port OpenBSD trunk(4)?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 3 07:00:35 UTC 2006


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:50:39PM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Is there any interest or plans underway to port the trunk(4) feature 
> from OpenBSD? OpenBSD's trunk(4) appears to be exactly what I'm looking 
> for, but there doesn't appear to be anything I can find on a port to 
> FreeBSD.
> 
>     http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4
> 
> I've been tasked with setting up a system that will have 2x Intel 
> Pro/1000 network adapters linked to an HP ProCurve 5300XL modular switch.
> 
> I stumbled across ng_fec(4), but it refers explicitly to Cisco Fast 
> EtherChannel; some information suggests that this is supported by the HP 
> switch... would using Netgraph with ng_fec achieve the same end result? 
> Has anyone successfully used it as such?
> 
ng_one2many(4) can do it; search for "bonding" in the FreeBSD
mail archives for details.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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