Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

2000-10-12 Thread David Greenman
> >It seems that the NetBSD folks have eliminated this ongoing pain in the >butt by using the mii interface for the intel cards. Is freebsd also moving >in this direction? Every few months there seems to be a problem, and its >difficult to fix it without docs The primary problems that have

Re: etherchannel

2000-10-12 Thread Archie Cobbs
Lyndon Nerenberg writes: > Mike> This is primarily conditional on Cisco or some other party > Mike> making the specifications for etherchannel freely available. > Mike> The last time I went looking for any actual documentation on > Mike> how to format things on the wire, I drew a c

Re: etherchannel

2000-10-12 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "rbg" == rbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rbg> How does this compare with Intel's Adaptive Load Balancing rbg> (ALB) ? -- I guess it's closer to Intel's Link Aggregation Dunno, I'm not familiar with ALB. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: etherchannel

2000-10-12 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> This is primarily conditional on Cisco or some other party Mike> making the specifications for etherchannel freely available. Mike> The last time I went looking for any actual documentation on Mike> how to format things

Re: etherchannel

2000-10-12 Thread Mike Smith
This is primarily conditional on Cisco or some other party making the specifications for etherchannel freely available. The last time I went looking for any actual documentation on how to format things on the wire, I drew a complete blank. Then we just need someone to lend a developer the req

etherchannel

2000-10-12 Thread Andreas Brodmann
I think someone got me wrong there: What I would like to ask the freebsd core team is if an implementation of the etherchannel capability - the way cisco uses the term - is planned in further development (for multiple physical ethernet interfaces not for isdn links). E.g. for channeling all four

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread Dennis
> >It's used for other cases where a high capacity circuit is built out >of multiple physical channels. That's what the original claims about >EtherChannel were from cisco, and it's what we use it for. That it >continues to work if one the links has a failure is a bonus. It's a >substantial bo

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 12 Oct 1988, Dennis wrote: :At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote: :>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: :> :>:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD :>:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad :>:term (no doubt coined by

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread Wes Peters
Dennis wrote: > > At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: > > > >:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD > >:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad > >:term (no doubt coined by the linux ca

yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

2000-10-12 Thread Dennis
It seems that the NetBSD folks have eliminated this ongoing pain in the butt by using the mii interface for the intel cards. Is freebsd also moving in this direction? Every few months there seems to be a problem, and its difficult to fix it without docs DB Emerging Technologies, Inc. ---

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread Dennis
At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote: >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: > >:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD >:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad >:term (no doubt coined by the linux camp). >: > >It's telco usage f

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: :We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD :shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad :term (no doubt coined by the linux camp). : It's telco usage from before there was a linux (and probably before t