Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:22:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:22:30 -0500 Received: from dweeb.lbl.gov ([128.3.1.28]:8458 "EHLO beeble.lbl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:22:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0C486D.184F31AE@lbl.gov> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:11:41 -0800 From: Thomas Davis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-RAID i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matti Aarnio CC: Constantine Gavrilov , willy tarreau , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21 In-Reply-To: <20001110092846.29847.qmail@web1102.mail.yahoo.com> <20001110114425.E13151@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <3A0BC699.791064BE@xpert.com> <20001110121402.F13151@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <3A0BCC4C.FCE21320@xpert.com> <20001110125150.G13151@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matti Aarnio wrote: > Beowulf systems have "bonding" in use for parallel Ethernet > links in between two machines, however THAT is not EtherChannel > compatible thing! > Maybe we should adopt's sun naming then, and call it 'Trunking'. This is the same driver that Beowulf uses, and it is Etherchannel compatible. The only part of Etherchannel we don't support is the XOR channel selection (yuck!) and the automatic configuration of the links (it's a MII thing, that's undocumented.) Leave it as Ethernet Bonding. -- ------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Thomas Davis | PDSF Project Leader tadavis@lbl.gov | (510) 486-4524 | "Only a petabyte of data this year?" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/