Is it possible with Solaris 8 or 9 on an E450 to combine two gigabit
interfaces into one for increased performance, provided our switch can
combine to ports as well? (if anyone happens to know if Extreme Black
Diamond switches support this)

By combine I mean 1 IP address for both cards..

Thx,
CC

In article <3fba2c60_1@127.0.0.1>, Chuck <usenet@zulu420.com> wrote:

> Is it possible with Solaris 8 or 9 on an E450 to combine two gigabit
> interfaces into one for increased performance, provided our switch can
> combine to ports as well? (if anyone happens to know if Extreme Black
> Diamond switches support this)

I think you have to buy the SUN Trunking Software and only think it
works with the Quad Ethernet cards and routers that support it (e.g.
Cisco). I don't think you can do this with the Gigabit ethernet cards
or the router you mentioned.

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Approximately 11/18/03 06:27, Chuck uttered for posterity:

> Is it possible with Solaris 8 or 9 on an E450 to combine two gigabit
> interfaces into one for increased performance, provided our switch can
> combine to ports as well? (if anyone happens to know if Extreme Black
> Diamond switches support this)

The Sun Trunking software provides the equivalent of the
Cisco Port Aggretation Protocol. There is now an official
802.3 subspec for this, including the issue of passive, active,
etc. configurations. You'd want to look at the Sun Trunking
datasheet and match the acronyms to your switch, which may or
may not be able to trunk gigabits.


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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, it was written:

> I think you have to buy the SUN Trunking Software and only think it
> works with the Quad Ethernet cards and routers that support it (e.g.
> Cisco). I don't think you can do this with the Gigabit ethernet cards
> or the router you mentioned.

Not sure about the router but you need a trunking aware and capable
switch. The Sun Trunking 1.3 software is supported on the QFE (X1034A),
UTP and MMF gigabit interfaces (X1150A and X1151A) and the dual ethernet
cards (X2222A) as well as the older gigabit PCI and SBUS cards (X1141A
and X1140A) and SBUS QFEs (X1049A) and aggregates up to 2 gigabit or 8
QFE ports.

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Chuck wrote:

> Is it possible with Solaris 8 or 9 on an E450 to combine two gigabit
> interfaces into one for increased performance, provided our switch can
> combine to ports as well? (if anyone happens to know if Extreme Black
> Diamond switches support this)
> By combine I mean 1 IP address for both cards..
In addition to previous mentioned SUN Trunking Software read about IP
Multi-Pathing.

It will not be exactly what you want, but you will recieve Outboun load
spreading. And it is included in Solaris.