Re: fast EtherChannel support?

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:35:18 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, David Miller wrote:

> Any projects in prograss at this point?
>
> None known. Sun provides something similar with their quad fast
> ethernet cards (the cards we do support under Linux), but they call it
> "trunking", I do not know if there is any similarity between the Cisco
> mechanism and what Sun does.
>
> It sounds like a scheme for which limited or no specifications are
> available publicly.
>

Been out since 1997.

Some more detailed technical documentation is here:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/switch/fec/prodlit/faste_an.htm

Press release from 1997 is here:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/switch/fec/news/fetec_pr.htm

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