On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:15:32AM +0200, Milon Papezik wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bernd Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 19:12
> > To: Leo Bicknell
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: ARP cache problems....
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:35:59AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:01:05AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > > > But there is no reason to put more than one interface on
> > the same hub.
> > > > Simply configure one interface with alias entries.
> > >
> > > s/hub/switch/ and there is, and the system should make this not
> > > too painful to configure.
> >
> > If you are using a switch you should use FEC or VLANs.
> > Yes I know there switches out there without that features but if you
> > want more performance then use hardware that can do the job you need.
>
> Could you please point me to some howto for FEC on FreeBSD ?
See the list archive - theres a Netgraph implementation for FreeBSD
available.
> I need to connect my server to two redundant switches
> (=> two connection, two cards, one logical interface, one ifconfig, ...).
FEC bundles ethernet channels between the same devices.
That doesn't help you in a multi switch case.
AFAIK you can't tell a switched network that a single MAC is connected
to more than one switch. Switches are beleaving to see a loop and
disable one port.
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B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de
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