On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
On Friday 31 October 2008 06:24, Dave Howorth wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
This article, <http://www.linux.com/feature/133849>, states:
"The switch must support the IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)."
That's a very useful article! Thanks Randall.
If you look just before that quote it says "no additional configuration is required on the switch". If you look at the following paragraph, it says "requires the switch itself to be configured".
So the answer is that there is more than one way of doing this and the OP does need to read the fine print in the manuals and/or find somebody who has set it up with some recent switches.
I probably should have quoted more, since I see now that there are multiple methods, some that require 802.3ad and some that don't (but still requires some form of aggregation support in the switch). And so on.
Definitely read the article if you're going to set up link bonding.
By the way, I found it via the Google search "Link Bonding Ethernet Switch Support"
I'll give it a read. As an FYI: I checked the D-Link and NetGear switches. For both on the high-end fully managed switches they explicitly show 802.3ad support. For both, on their lowest functionality switches, they _don't_ show it. NetGear has a "smart" series, which does and the pricing is very reasonable. ($300 for a 24 port 1 Gbit). The smart series have a HTML interface (like your $50 router) and the support is shown as "manual", where as the high-end ones I assume handle it automatically. I did not find a similarly priced D-Link with support. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org