On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 08), Chris Dillon said:
> > > The channel bonding is done using the Cisco fast etherchannel
> > > mechanism. The default hashing mechanism uses the MAC address,
> > > however you can select IP address hashing as well. IPv4 and IPv6
> > > address *should* work, though I must admit I've been using IPv4
> > > until now. If someone actually has a Cisco switch that implements
> > > fast ethetchannel, I'd be interested to know if it works with this
> > > module. At the moment, my test environment consist of two machines
> > > with multiport ethernet cards wired up using four crossover cables.
> >
> > Apparently there is another way to do channel bonding with switches
> > that don't support Cisco's EtherChannel, since I'm doing it with
> > 3COM's (piece of *hit) SuperStackII switches and I don't have
> > EtherChannel support enabled in Compaq's NT drivers for their Intel
> > NICs.
>
> I've just finished scouring Cisco's documentation, and it doesn't
> look like FEC is anything beyond plain old trunking (with the
> option of autoconfiguration on some hardware). As long as you
> configure the appropriate ports on the switch on the other end as
> "SA-Trunk", or "Trunk", you should be okay.
Cool, if thats all it will take, I'll give it a try. But, whatever
method Compaq/Intel is using doesn't require me to set up the ports on
the switch as being part of a trunk. It "just works". And IIRC, when
I actually tried to set the ports on the 3COM switch up as trunk
ports, it didn't work right. Maybe 3COM is doing something entirely
different.
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