802.3ad?

[Andrew Thompson]

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?

NetBSD has an implementation which would be a good starting place for
anyone looking into this.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/net/agr/


Andrew