High ping latency using two ethernet under FreeBSD 4.11 ...

Charlie Schluting charlie at schluting.com
Tue Mar 15 12:05:22 PST 2005


Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, dima wrote:
> 
>> ng_fec is the NetGraph module which implements Cisco FastEtherChannel 
>> technology. This actually means you have 1 virtual interface fec0 
>> representing 2 or more physical interfaces. The load balancing scheme 
>> can be assigned by a Catalyst, but low-end models like 2950 and 3550 
>> can only balance traffic based on the least significant bit(s) of 
>> MAC-address.
> 
> 
> And this means ... ?
> 
> Also, how do I confirm that my 2950 *does*, in fact, support netgraph?  
> I see nothing in 'show version' to indicate it ... but:
> 

Fisrt google hit leads to this cisco doc:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/4.html
(yes, you can do it.. with a c2900 too)

Netgraph support Cisco Fast Etherchannel, not the other way around :)

-Charlie


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