> You don't need spanning tree support on the router to accomplish this. > You just need NIC 'teaming' support in the OS.
Yep, hence I suppose I should have phrased the question along the lines of "whether it'd be possible to team vr0 and vr1 together on the LAN interface". I'd imagine it's more of a question of whether the underlying FBSD system has such support, or whether extra packages would need to be added. > STP is, in my opinion, a brain-dead way of accomplishing this. STP > should be eliminated from any well-designed modern network wherever > possible! So, are you saying that with adapter teaming there should be no need to use STP on the switches at all? I was under the impression that linux's adapter teaming could be combined with port aggregation on a switch to provide extra bandwidth (i.e. pair of gigabit connections to the switch), or to provide failover (into 2 separate switches), but if you want to combine the 2, STP was required on the switches? I'll freely admit this is way outside my normal areas of expertise, I'm learning as I go here :-) Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it This email is made from 100% recycled electrons --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
