[eepro100] PRO/100 S Dual Port Adapter - advanced features?

Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:23:04 +0200

Donald Becker schrieb:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Christian Schoeniger wrote:
> 
> > Are the advanced software features of the Intel® PRO/100 S
> > Dual Port Server Adapter like
> > - adapter fault tolerance
> > - adaptive load balancing
> > - ieee 802.3ad link aggregation
> 
> These are not features of the adapter, they are features above the
> device driver level.  In the Microsoft world they are usually bundled
> with the device driver only in order to differentiate the more expensive
> products.  There is nothing wrong with that, but that marketing approach
> has led people to believe that they somehow require unique hardware
> support.

in case of these software features you are rigth, but as i understands
the
ieee 802.3ad standard its something between MAC and LLC which handels 
incoming packets with multiple MAC-addresses in one group to merge it to
a
single data stream and determines which MACs are active for sending ... 
IMHO this should be done by the driver.

i'm searching for a way to built a dual-homed server attached to 2
switches
to provide fault tolerancy on data link layer so that the servers ip
address
is reachable even if one link fails.
can you point me to a place where i can find information about that ?

Christian Schoeniger
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