ethernet port bondage

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 02), Antony Mawer said:
> On 2/11/2006 9:10 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >In the last episode (Nov 01), Kenny Dail said:
> >>Thanks for that, but I would be interested in bonding, unless in
> >>the FreeBSD world that can't be achieved with failover. It's a
> >>fairly straight forward setup on my Linux servers, I was thinking
> >>it would be easy enough, but I haven't seen the docs for it
> >>anywhere.
> >
> >Try ng_fec, although it really doesn't implement fec negotiation, so
> >you need to hardcode the settings to match on the switch.  There's
> >also ng_one2many.
> 
> I posted instructions a while ago on how to setup ng_fec along with
> an HP ProCurve switch supporting FastEtherchannel -- the same should
> also apply for Cisco switches. Be warned that newer HP/Cisco gear has
> dropped support for FEC in favour of 802.3ad/LACP...

Luckily, since neither ng_fec or ng_one2many actually do any
negotiation, it doesn't matter what the other end is, as long as it's
statically configured.

> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-September/011901.html
> 
> I haven't experimented with ng_one2many, but my understanding is that it 
> only provides a "dumb" balancing/bonding solution.
> 
> Presumably we need an ng_bonding or something along those lines would be 
> required to achieve parity with what Linux can provide...?

Patches to add negotation to ng_fec and rename it to ng_lacp welcome :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com