Re: Linux/FreeBSD Channel Bonding Interoperability

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 05/27/05

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    Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:27:55 -0700
To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>

    probably this would be better in net@freebsd.org

    Florent Thoumie wrote:

    > Hey list.
    >
    > I'm advocating for FreeBSD for about 6 months now where I'm
    > working and they have the project to build their own router
    > (which will probably be based on WRAP).
    >
    > The good point is that the actual solution is running Linux
    > but it's not highly reliable. The bad point is that they're
    > using channel bonding (on both peers) and they don't want to
    > change one (or at least the system it runs).
    >
    > I've read about ng_fec and ng_onetomany, so I know channel
    > bonding is quite easy (seems so, according to web pages I've
    > found) but I guess FreeBSD and Linux won't work correctly.
    > If that's the case, I wondered if it could be much aspossible to add a
    > new node to "translate" stuff so that both could communicate
    > correctly.
    >
    >

    how you do it depends entirely on how they are doing the bonding in Linux.
    you do not give any clues as to what modules they are using.

    > This can be a dumb idea, really I've no idea since I don't know
    > anything about netgraph and bonding.
    >
    >
    >
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