> Yes Etherchannel uses some other mechanism to balance the load. Its acually worse :)
Cisco Etherchannel requires the device attached to speak a special protocol to keep things working. You can not just take any system, put 2 NIC's in it plug it into a cisco switch, and expect it to work. It wont (well, atleast it wont have the desired result). If you turn on fast etherchannel on the port, the switch will expect to be able to talk to the device with the "etherchannel" protocol. If it cant, it will not activate the ports. But I do beleive it is worthwhile for us to support this, I beleive the spec is open? I will check with cisco. -- Steve Rubin - [email protected] - http://www.tch.org/~ser/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
