On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:20:02AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 23/09/2006 4:47 AM, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: > >?zkan KIRIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Thanks for your reply, > >> > >>It seems that HP ProCurve 5400 series doesn't support fec trunking : > >> > >>hp(config)# trunk A3-a5 trk1 fec > >>Invalid input: fec > >> > >>hp(config)# trunk A3-a5 trk1 ? > >> trunk Do not use any protocol to create or maintain > >>the trunk. > >> lacp Use IEEE 802.1ad Link Aggregation protocol. > >> <cr> > >>hp(config)# > >> > >>Can ng_fec handshake with switch via "trunk" option instead of "fec" ? > >According to HP docs, FEC should "work" with the 'trunk' setting. > >It will loose all features tough, and just become a 'dumb' bonding-style > >thing, with no redundancy and other features. > > Yes, I was reading some HP docs yesterday and they implied that they > were removing FEC on newer switches in favour of using the IEEE > standards-based methods of trunking.
even Cisco doesn't support FEC on their own switches with some of the newer gear. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
