Re: Again: EQL - someone's use this thing yet?

Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 12:16:54 -0800

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
>
> > (IPX, Appletalk, even NETBIOS can be balanced across it.)
>
> Hmm... but from where does it acquire this shared MAC address?
> Is it a special protocol?
>

No, not really. check out
http://pdsf.nersc.gov/linux/bonding-0.2.tar.gz

It's all in there.. (it's not ready for 2.3)

But, it does use the dev->slave/dev->master information, so that can't
be removed (sorry alan..)

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