Port trunking or link aggregation under FreeBSD ?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Jun 13 02:06:05 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Jun 13), Simiganoschi Teodor said:
> Hello,
> I have a switch with port trunking, on my server I have 2 NIC's, I
> whant to make them work as port trunking to comunicate with the
> switch.
> My NIC's are:
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

You'll want to use the ng_fec netgraph node.  See the ng_fec manpage
for the syntax.  It doesn't support LACP autonegotiation, though, so
you will have to manually set a matching configuration on your swtich.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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