On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:16:06AM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> In message <20021201082612.GA17638@bcd.geek.com.au>Daniel Carosone writes
> 
> [FEC]
> Isn't Cisco's FEC proprietary?

I'm not certain about that, though I do know it's been implemented
by a number of vendors (HP in procurve switches, and Sun and
Microsoft for servers), perhaps under license agreements.

> IEEE 802.1ad, aka "gigabit ethernet port trunking".  Various
> configurations allow for for load-balancin (tho the IEEE rules are,
> perhaps, overly strict for an IP network), or failover for redundancy.

Neat, will take a look, thanks for the pointer

> Paging Jason.... 

Heh.  Paging anyone else at all except Jason that wants to share
this kind of work?

--
Dan.