Linux/FreeBSD Channel Bonding Interoperability

[Julian Elischer]

probably this would be better in net at freebsd.org

Florent Thoumie wrote:

>	Hey list.
>
>	I'm advocating for FreeBSD for about 6 months now where I'm 
>	working and they have the project to build their own router 
>	(which will probably be based on WRAP).
>
>	The good point is that the actual solution is running Linux
>	but it's not highly reliable. The bad point is that they're 
>	using channel bonding (on both peers) and they don't want to 
>	change one (or at least the system it runs).
>
>	I've read about ng_fec and ng_onetomany, so I know channel 
>	bonding is quite easy (seems so, according to web pages I've 
>	found) but I guess FreeBSD and Linux won't work correctly.
>	If that's the case, I wondered if it could be much aspossible to add a 
>	new node to "translate" stuff so that both could communicate 
>	correctly.
>  
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how you do it depends entirely on how they are doing the bonding in Linux.
you do not give any clues as to what modules they are using.

>	This can be a dumb idea, really I've no idea since I don't know 
>	anything about netgraph and bonding.
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