> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:28:53PM +0000, jhautbois@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > OK, I agree, it doesn't make sense, but I want to be transparent using
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> > bridging. I can't explain my idea :).
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> You can't be transparent with respect to LACP if you're using ethernet
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> to bridge. It doesn't make sense - LACP is negotiated between bridge
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> ports on a point-to-point ethernet interface.
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> > You mean I need to have four physical interfaces ?
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> > I can't understand how too accomplish this.
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> > Currently, I am doing :
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> > brctl addif eth1
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> > brctl addif eth2
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> No - you don't need four physical interfaces. I was trying to
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> extrapolate what problem you might be trying to solve, and I think I
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> guessed wrong. I imagined that you needed a multi-interface bundle
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> through a Linux bridge.
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> If you just want your box to speak LACP to the adjacent switches, you
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> could easily make bond interfaces with single ethernet interfaces.
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> But it sounds like you don't want to speak LACP to the switches, you
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> want to pass it as if you were a layer 1 device.
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This is exactly the problem.
But, sounds like it is not possible... ?
JM
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