Re: status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general

[froh@fsb.gotdns.org (Frode Haugsgjerd)]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Andreas John wrote:
> Hi!
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> problem with VLANs through a trunk AFAIR. BTW: Could anyone point out 
> what happens in practice when one cable/port in the trunk dies? Is 
> trunking redundant? hot failover?)
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If you by trunking mean the bonding module, yes.
>From FAQ section in:
Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

5.  What happens when a slave link dies?

        If your ethernet cards support MII or ETHTOOL link status 
	monitoring and the MII monitoring has been enabled in the driver (see 
	description of module parameters), there will be no adverse 
	consequences. This release of the bonding driver knows how to 
	get the MII information and enables or disables its slaves 
	according to their link status. See section on High Availability for 
	additional information.
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Frode Haugsgjerd
Norway