Re: [PATCH-2.2] Bonding Driver Enhancements + Security fix

From: Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 15:27:27 EST

willy tarreau wrote:
>
> > rename bond_xmit to bond_xmit_roundrobin, so
> > bond_xmit_xor can be implemented, and used if
> > desired. bond_xmit_xor is what cisco
> > etherchannel/sun trunking really uses, not round
> > robin.
>
> how does their xor method work ? do you know about an
> RFC stating about this, that I could read ? I'm
> really interested in this since I must propose a
> completely redondant switch/server solution for a big
> project here. The more I will know about their trunk,
> the best I may be able to do :-)

See this:

http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.539.1/UGTRUNKING/@Ab2PageView/1311?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

for information on the 4 possible trunking transmittors. 

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