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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:57:03 +0100 (CET)
From:      "eberkut" <eberkut@minithins.net>
To:        "Jacob S. Barrett" <jbarrett@amduat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding
Message-ID:  <3522.213.41.155.24.1078779423.squirrel@mail.plug-it.com>
In-Reply-To: <200403072022.51630.jbarrett@amduat.net>
References:  <200403072022.51630.jbarrett@amduat.net>

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> I would have liked to have used either ng_fec or ng_one2many, but neither
> of them detects link failures.

According to the original ng_fec announcement [1] on freebsd-net, ng_fec
should be able to detect link failure by checking the interfaces in the
bundle once every second.

Even though I don't "speak" C fluently, I think ng_fec_tick in ng_fec.c
[2] should do the trick.

[1]
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=448009+0+archive/2001/freebsd-net/20010211.freebsd-net
[2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/netgraph/ng_fec.c

--vjm
"you can tune a file system but you can't tune a fish"
(man 8 tunefs, BUGS)



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