Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eberkut [mailto:eberkut at minithins.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:57 PM
> To: Jacob S. Barrett
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Solution for Resilient VLAN Trunk Bonding
> 
> 
> > I would have liked to have used either ng_fec or 
> ng_one2many, but neither
> > of them detects link failures.
> 
> According to the original ng_fec announcement [1] on 
> freebsd-net, ng_fec
> should be able to detect link failure by checking the 
> interfaces in the
> bundle once every second.
> 
> Even though I don't "speak" C fluently, I think ng_fec_tick 
> in ng_fec.c
> [2] should do the trick.
> 
> [1]
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=448009+0+archive/
> 2001/freebsd-net/20010211.freebsd-net
> [2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/netgraph/ng_fec.c

Regardless, it doesn't look like ng_fec can work with ng_vlan, since
it doesn't provide any hooks to work with.

-Will