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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:40:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
Cc:        Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <carnero@icrt.cu>, Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Annoying ARP warning messages.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210281339290.24965-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022DBC@mail.sandvine.com>

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Don Bowman wrote:

> From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@elischer.org]
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> 
> > > In this example, does the xl0 interface share the same MAC address?
> > 
> > umm actually, yes.. sends switches insane.. :-)
> > if you don't do the step about source Mac address replacement
> > then they have different addresses. (though I can't guarantee that)
> 
> Is there support for 802.3ad in FreeBSD? This would be the best
> way to gang interfaces together in a standard fashion. It involves
> LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol), which prevents loops
> @ L2 (I think its an extension of STP). Packet reordering is also
> solved (the simple round robin scheme achieves rather poor performance
> due to this problem).
> 

This could be (relatively) easy in netgraph.. it was designed for that
sort of thing. 
 

> Another way to do it is with OSPF ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath Routing),
> depends on whether you think L2 is cool or L3 :)
> 




> --don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com)
> 


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