LACP 802.3ad and ng_fec ?

[Brad]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:20:02AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
> On 23/09/2006 4:47 AM, Bart Van Kerckhove wrote:
> >?zkan KIRIK <ozkan at mersin.edu.tr> wrote:
> >>Thanks for your reply,
> >>
> >>It seems that HP ProCurve 5400 series doesn't support fec trunking :
> >>
> >>hp(config)# trunk A3-a5 trk1 fec
> >>Invalid input: fec
> >>
> >>hp(config)# trunk A3-a5 trk1 ?
> >> trunk                 Do not use any protocol to create or maintain
> >>the trunk.
> >> lacp                  Use IEEE 802.1ad Link Aggregation protocol.
> >> <cr>
> >>hp(config)#
> >>
> >>Can ng_fec handshake with switch via "trunk" option instead of "fec" ?
> >According to HP docs, FEC should "work" with the 'trunk' setting.
> >It will loose all features tough, and just become a 'dumb' bonding-style 
> >thing, with no redundancy and other features.
> 
> Yes, I was reading some HP docs yesterday and they implied that they 
> were removing FEC on newer switches in favour of using the IEEE 
> standards-based methods of trunking.

even Cisco doesn't support FEC on their own switches with some of the
newer gear.