On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:11:53AM +0200, Ben Greear wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:43:29PM +0200, Nick Towers wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am looking at starting a project to implment 802.3ad ethernet link
> > > aggregation under Linux. For those of you that have never heard of it
> > > I've given a description and a few pointers at the end. Before I
> > > launch into it I was wondering if there is anyone else out there who
> > >
> > > 1) Has started work on an implementation
> >
> > I started work some time ago. It is basically an user space problem.
>
> How would it be user-space? Doesn't it aggregate several physical
> layers together into one interface? That seems like a kernel
> level thing to me....
The required kernel level mechanisms already exit: bounding, teql,
equal cost multipath routing. Only multipath routing is strictly
conforming to the SPEC of keeping an "conversation" on the same line.
Anyways, you just need a routing daemon in user space that listens
to the multicast group and sets up the required bundles via one of these
mechanisms.
-Andi
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