Re: [svlug] Re: [SOLVED] fast EtherChannel support?

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Sat, 8 May 1999 00:49:30 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Thomas Davis wrote:

> >It looks like the beowulf channel bonding stuff will work. More info here.
> >
> >http://www.beowulf.org/listarchives/beowulf/1999/03/0366.html
> >
> I'll make it easy - I've sent a patch to Alan for this.
>
> It's up to him to include it in the next ac kernel
>
> Please note - the original work was done by Donald Becker!
>
> You will still need to the ifslave program.
>
> The patch I sent works great with Cisco EtherChannels.

Seems to have a bug if you disconnect one of the ethernet cables, 50%
packet loss forever. It is supposed to fail over to the remaining card
once the xmit buffer fills but that is not happening, at least not with
2.2.7 and a dual Intel 10/100 card.

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