[CentOS] broadcom 802.3ad
James Pearson
james-p at moving-picture.com
Fri Feb 2 10:45:26 UTC 2007
Gordon McLellan wrote:
> Does anyone have some tips for setting up Broadcom's 802.3AD support
> or just getting their driver compiled / installed?
>
> First off, I noticed redhat claims the broadcom bcm5708 driver has
> been added to the rhel4 kernel. But I don't see /proc/net/nicinfo
> which broadcom claims the driver creates when it's successfully
> initialized.
The bcm5708 driver is there - as your dmesg output states.
May be '/proc/net/nicinfo' is something the native driver from Broadcom
creates/uses- and RedHat chose not to port that part?
I know nothing about Broadcom's 802.3AD support - but why not just use
the 802.3AD bonding driver that the kernel provides? - see:
<http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces>
James Pearson
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