[osol-discuss] re: [networking-discuss] The 802.3ad link aggregation support on netra 240 (bge broadcom) under solaris 8

2006-01-17 Thread Peter Memishian
After checking some blog pages of open solaris, I knew that the old type drivers of NIC adapter (eg. qe,fqe,ge) was developed by DLPI or GLDv2, but the bge was developed by GLDv3. I guess sun trunking only support the former method. Sun Trunking is supported by some extensions coded

[osol-discuss] re: [networking-discuss] The 802.3ad link aggregation support on netra 240 (bge broadcom) under solaris 8

2006-01-17 Thread Peter Memishian
Sun Trunking is supported by some extensions coded directly into some of the existing monolithic DLPI drivers, such as ge or qfe. The approach has significant flexibility issues (e.g., you can't trunk across different drives), and thus we have moved away from it. That should read