Subject: Re: IP distribution across multiple NICs
To: C Kane <ckane@best.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/10/2001 14:12:19
From: "C Kane" <ckane@best.com>:
> Previously, John Franklin wrote:
> > While I don't think you were thinking this, it did spark in me an
> > interesting idea. ... Can we lash several network interfaces behind
> > an abstraction of one to create an effectively larger pipe?
>
> Etherchannel?
>
>
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/techno/media/lan/ether/channel/tech/
fetec_wp.htm
>
Yup, this is exactly what is needed. I hacked up a 'if_fec.c' that just
created a 'fec0' interface, but I was not sure how to hook into the
packet stream. Now that we have vlan(4) I think it wouldn't take too
much to make something go.
-Andrew