On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Willis L. Sarka wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Just a general question or two.. Please point me to a URL or tell me where
> to RTFM, or answer back ;-).
>
> What is the status/condition of using muliport NICs and bonding
> them together to form a larger pipe (i.e. a quad channel ethernet card for
> an Intel box, bonding all four interfaces together to get a theoretical
> 400Mbps pipe)? Are there any highly recommended cards of this type? Will
> the bonding work when connected to a Cisco catalyst switch with ether
> channel?
Linux bonding is compat with Sun EtherTrunking and Cisco
EtherChannel/FastEtherChannel.
On the Cisco side you follow their setup examples, *except*
you *must* trun keepalives off on the cisco. These are a Cisco
extension. If you fail to do this the Cisco will toggle the
onterfaces *off* every 10 - 30 seconds.
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The roaches seem to have survived, but they are not routing packets
correctly.
--About the Internet and nuclear war.
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