From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 29 13:20:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1513837B401; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.140.234.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.140.234]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23285; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B64647E.85BAE179@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:31:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Julian Elischer , "Eugene L. Vorokov" , Soren Kristensen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment... References: <20010727164602.46DBC380B@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > Have you seen Bill Paul's FEC stuff? It works very nicely, but using the > cisco Fast EtherChannel instead of VRRP. While it isn't the same, we have > used it with four interfaces merged into one virtual interface quite > happily. I haven't played with it... does it handle one of the four dropping out, and do the right thing? Say I have four boxes, and I want to have four virtual interfaces; can you define more than one virtual interface for the group at the same time, and keep four virtual interfaces going with only three boxes? That seems like the most useful configuration (to me, anyway...). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message