Pete Vickers wrote:
well i think you could insert your dual NIC openbsd host into the switch
'ring' physically, then bridging between the 2 NICs and firing up STP,
but be aware that every time you up/down an interface or reboot your
openbsd box, you'll trigger an STP recalc - which is around 45sec outage
across entire switch infrastructure. (This can be mitigated with PVST
and RSTP somewhat).
/Pete
That's exactly what I would hope to do. With RSTP, I believe convergence
times are of the order of a second, which I think is an acceptable price
to pay to have both GbE speed on the router connection and a level of
resilience in the ring. The fact that our routers usually get rebooted
twice a year, once in May and once in November, (errata excepted) helps
me feel better about the chances of a few one-second blips :-D
So, given you seem to understand this far better than me, do you have
any suggestion on how I should layer up all the interfaces, or should I
just try the idea I have on a test network and report back?
SD
