On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:50 -0500, Jason King wrote: > 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).
_All_ Ethernet NICs should work with GLDv3 link aggregations (or any other GLDv3 feature such as VLANs for that matter). That was one of the goals of the Clearview UV project that integrated back in build 83. -Seb _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
