On Wed, 29 May 2002 @ 6:39pm (-0700), Aditya wrote:

A> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:08:51PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
A> > ISTR something like "setenv local-mac-address? true" at the ok prompt,
A> > but I'm not sure whether that actually works right with NetBSD (never
A> > tried it myself, and indeed I'm not sure I have the variable name
A> > right).
A>
A> it is the correct name, but apparently doesn't work with the tlp driver yet.
A>
A> > interfaces.  If your switch has problems due to seeing the same MAC
A> > address on two different vlans, it's broken.  (Not that that's much
A> > consolation if you're faced with such a beast, admittedly.)
A>
A> I have half a solution to this proposed by the switch vendor (HP Procurve
A> 2524) -- use VLANs and port trunking with something like FEC.
A>

Solaris has support for Cisco's EtherChannel (up to 8 links to a
Cayalyst).

-lava

A>
A> Since I don't really require the full bandwidth of 2 100baseTX ports, I've
A> just configured it with VLANs and that seems to work very nicely. AFAIK there
A> is no FEC or equivalent interface "bonding" support in NetBSD (it's sort of
A> supported in FreeBSD via a mostly orphaned netgraph module).
A>
A> BTW, "pseudo-device vlan" doesn't seem documented in -current anywhere, but
A> seems to work as advertised on my Netra X1!
A>
A> Thanks,
A> Adi