This is not how Etherchannel works. Anyone from cisco here care to explain better than I possibly could?
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:55PM -0700, John Milford wrote: > > You have to have the capibility on the switch, and enable it > first. It is called EtherChannel by Cisco, and it is 2 or 4 ports > that all have the same MAC addr plugged into the switch, and the > switch treats them as one interface. > > > --John > > > Steve Rubin <s...@tch.org> wrote: > > > > > > > You need a switch to do this. If your clients are on the same ethernet as > > > your server, they can only talk to one MAC address. That means you only > > > ge > t > > > the bandwidth of one interface. If you have a switch that can bond ports > > > together, you can use both cards at the same time, transparently to > > > everybo > dy > > > but the driver and the switch. I know that NetWare supports this, as do > > > so > me > > > Bay switch, and surely some Cisco stuff. > > > > > > > Having 2 ethernet cards with the same mac address on two different ports > > of all the cisco switches I have used (1100-6500) will confuse the hell > > out of them :). I've seen it happen. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Steve Rubin - s...@tch.org - http://www.tch.org/~ser/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
