Link aggregation protocol on Tru64 5.1b PK-5

[Ronald Womack]

I have a customer who would like to set up a LAG configuration with their gigabit ethernet cards installed in a GS-1280 Marvel which is running Tru64 5.1b PK-5. This server is connected to a Cisco 3750 switch. My question is if 5.1b PK-5 now supports either the LACP protocol or PaGP Cisco protocols (802.3ad) as the link aggregation? I've only noted a couple of postings in this forum back on Tru64 5.1A which says that neither one of these protocols is supported and only a manual link etherchannel configuration on the Cisco switch is supported but I haven't been able to locate any info in either the man pages or Tru64 networking documentation which specifies that they are now supported.

[Han Pilmeyer]

I believe it's a partial 802.3ad implementation. People have been known to use it on production systems, so that's where I would start.

[Ann Majeske]

The only information I've been able to collect on this is that we haven't changed anything in LAG since V5.1A, so if the postings were correct for V5.1A (and I don't have any reason to think they weren't) they are also true for V5.1B.

Ann Majeske, Tru64 UNIX Engineering