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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Subject: Re: bonding with 3c59x driver
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:06:54 -0600
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On 02/14/2012 01:27 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Without the patch above, doing bonding on top of 3c59x is simply not
> possible, at least not in active-backup mode. For other modes it depends
> if you are only interested in load balancing or also on redundancy.

Could you just use arp monitoring instead of mii?

Chris

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