On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 06:15:37AM +0200, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: Implementing 802.3ad-2000 link aggregation under Linux
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:43:29PM +0200, Nick Towers wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > 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....
>
> 802.3ad is not just channel bonding (the kernel-level mechanism), it also
> including sending packets down each link to detect topology and verify that
> the connection continues to work.
The kernel already has all necessary mechanisms for that in place: queryable
neighbour states, after going into slow path the protocol does its own
checking anyways.
I believe you'll be able to do a fine 802.3ad implementation without
any kernel changes.
-Andi
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