Thanks for the details. I was never fully certain as to how this worked. It makes sense though. And it definately allows for IPv6.. -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Free Daemon Consulting, LLC Land: 405-748-4596 http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com Mobile: 405-203-6124 "..in support of free software solutions." Key fingerprint: 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A Key: http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt (last updated 2003/03/13 07:14:10) Penned by Michel Py on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:57:08AM -0700, we have: | Todd, | | > Todd T. Fries wrote: | > I understand there are tricks for faster thoroughput on | > IPv4 with regards to multiple interfaces (network cards) | > and a single IP address. Say, two 100mbit cards plugged | > into the same 100mbit switch. Is this `trick' available | > with IPv6 in any fashion? | | There would be interesting issues with having two interfaces with the | same IPv6 address on a switch related to the switch's CAM table, I doubt | it could work without channelizing at a lower layer. | | For what I have done, these tricks are not specific to IPv4 but lower in | the stack by combining several physical interfaces into a single logical | bundle at the data link layer; the IPv6 address is applied to the newly | created logical interface. I mostly use Fast or Gigabit Etherchannel. | | Michel. | -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
