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Old 24th September 2011
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Originally Posted by toxictrash View Post
Hi All

I'm having problems configuring a trunk port in failover mode for openBSD 4.9.
The situation is this, I have one bsd with two interfaces(vic0 and vic1) that are directly connected to a simple switch on the third port of the switch I have a windows machine.
I think this might be the source of the problem, as you do need a smart switch, not just a simple one. You need switch that has support for 802.3ad (Link Aggregation). See the end of trunk(4) man page:
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CAVEATS

     The trunk protocols loadbalance and roundrobin require a switch which
     supports IEEE 802.3ad static link aggregation; otherwise protocols such
     as inet6(4) duplicate address detection (DAD) cannot properly deal with
     duplicate packets.
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