On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Tom Georgoulias < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does opensolaris offer network trunking capabilities? I did some > searches on the opensolaris.org site and found references to Sun > Trunking software, but it looks like you need a special card for that > and an opensolaris version of the pkg isn't present in the repo. > Prior releases of Solaris required the Sun Trunking software and only worked with specific ethernet drivers. With Opensolaris, there is a new network driver framework (called GLDv3 or Nemo) that allows any driver that makes use of the new framework to transparently support 802.3ad trunking (aka link aggregration). A large number of the bundled drivers with Opensolaris (though not all) utilize this framework, as well as a few third party drivers. Pretty much any Sun box will work (with the temporary exception of cassini -- ce -- cards, however I believe the old Sun trunking software will still work with them). Others if they're using broadcom (using the bge driver), nvidia (nge), or intel (e1000g) should work (though it's not an exhaustive list).
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