From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 12:56:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667F616A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:56:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from kraid.nerim.net (smtp-101-monday.nerim.net [62.4.16.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C106943D2F for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eberkut@minithins.net) Received: from lotus.plug-it.com (lotus.plug-it.com [62.212.108.163]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92C8418A0; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:56:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by lotus.plug-it.com (Postfix, from userid 11) id A2179402C; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:57:07 +0100 (CET) X-Scanned-By: Plug-It Antivirus System. Received: from mail.plug-it.com (localhost.nerim.net [127.0.0.1]) by lotus.plug-it.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A80A54021; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:57:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from eberkut.adsl.speka.net ([213.41.155.24]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user eberkut) by mail.plug-it.com with HTTP; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:57:03 +0100 (CET) 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> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:57:03 +0100 (CET) From: "eberkut" To: "Jacob S. Barrett" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.15.13 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on lotus.plug-it.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=4.0 tests=PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: * cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: eberkut@minithins.net List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:56:41 -0000 > 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)