Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: [svlug] Re: [SOLVED] fast EtherChannel support? | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:32:03 -0700 |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: >On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, David Miller wrote: > >> None known. Sun provides something similar with their quad fast >> ethernet cards (the cards we do support under Linux), but they call it >> "trunking", I do not know if there is any similarity between the Cisco >> mechanism and what Sun does. >> >> It sounds like a scheme for which limited or no specifications are >> available publicly. > >It looks like the beowulf channel bonding stuff will work. More info here. > >http://www.beowulf.org/listarchives/beowulf/1999/03/0366.html > I'll make it easy - I've sent a patch to Alan for this.
It's up to him to include it in the next ac kernel
Please note - the original work was done by Donald Becker!
You will still need to the ifslave program.
The patch I sent works great with Cisco EtherChannels.
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