RE: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-19 Thread Peter Blok
1 03:56 To: Archie Cobbs Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module > Bill Paul writes: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz > > > > This

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Paul
> >> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. > >> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to > >> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. > >> > >> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather > >> than by polling?

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. >> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to >> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. >> >> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather >> than by polling? > >If there

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Paul
> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. > >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to > >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. > > Any chance this can be done through an async event rather > than by polling? If there was, I w

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Dennis
At 03:42 PM 03/10/2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. > >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to > >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. > >Any chance this can be done through an async event

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. Any chance this can be done through an async event rather than by polling? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: s

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010212 00:30], Rogier R. Mulhuijzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >There's a IEEE standard these days for link aggregation. 802.3AD if I'm not >mistaken. When my workload at work lightens up I'll be spending time on this. You are correct. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodaiasmodai@[wxs

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module (fwd)

2001-02-12 Thread Bill Paul
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:29:17 +0100 > From: Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:25:09PM -0800, Bill Paul wrote: > >

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-12 Thread Archie Cobbs
Bill Paul writes: > > > This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used to > > > aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. Basically, > > > it lets you do things like the following: > > You know, so far I've gotten close to a dozen replies to this e-mail, > b

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Bill Paul wrote: > one other thing.. In ng_fec.h you have kept the same cookie number as ng_iface which means that messages for these two can be confused. You should use a differnt cookie by tradition we use date -u +'%s' to generate or change the cookie. Since the first 3 commands you have a

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Bill Paul wrote: > > > > You know, so far I've gotten close to a dozen replies to this e-mail, > but none of contain the one thing I really wanted, namely test results. actually I saw one person say it worked flawlessly for them (see mail from: Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) (workin

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-11 Thread Bill Paul
> Bill Paul writes: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz > > > > This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used to > > aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. Basically, > > it lets you d

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-11 Thread Archie Cobbs
Bill Paul writes: > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz > > This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used to > aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. Basically, > it lets you do things like

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-11 Thread Rogier R. Mulhuijzen
> > 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. >Prolly. FEC is cisco-specific thingy, like ISL... There's a IEEE standard these days for link aggregation. 802.3AD if I'm not mistaken. W

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-10 Thread Rainer Clasen
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:25:09PM -0800, Bill Paul wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz I've tried this with 4.2-RELEASE on a single PIII-500 with 128 MB RAM and 2 fxp0 Interfaces. It was attached to a Nortel Baystack 450 running a 2 port "Multinlink Trunk" Configuration. I

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Sorry, my brain's fried this afternoon. < u_int64_t mask = ~0 & (n-1);/* mask for iftab index */ > u_int64_t mask = n-1; /* mask for iftab index */ --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "Chris" == Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Its not real trunking. Your incoming traffic will still come on >> a single link, only outbound traffic will be shared. (Or at >> least that's how I think compaq stuff will work). Chris> Yes, I think that is how it work

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Bill Paul
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > 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". A

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > 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 II

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
The crock in these trunking schemes is all the trouble and effort expended to avoid re-ordering frames across the trunk bundle. This is why you see things like the hashing techniques so that an individual flow of traffic doesn't get reordered because it always is serialized over the a single pat

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Dillon
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

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
> 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 sho

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Julian Elischer
Welcome to netgraph.. I hope it was not an unpleasant experience.. Suggestions and complaints are definitly eccepted with pleasure. E.g. Was the differnce between 4.x and 5.x too much of a pain.? (it was needed for SMP) I will be making a backport of SOME of the added functionality of 5.x to 4.x

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-08 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz > > This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used > to aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. > Basically, it lets

call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-08 Thread Bill Paul
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used to aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. Basically, it lets you do things like the following: # kldload ./ng