Re: [opensuse] Is the a list of Switches that support link bonding?

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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