Recommended Reading

Interconnections, Second Edition, by Radia Perlman. (Addison-Wesley, 1999).

Cisco LAN Switching, by Kennedy Clark and Kevin Hamilton. (Pearson Higher Education, 1999).

Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks, by Karen Webb. (Cisco Press, 2000).

The ifconfig manual page, ifconfig(8)

The iproute Utility Suite HOWTO, http://www.linuxgrill.com/iproute2.doc.html

The vlan manual page, vlan(4)

The bridge manual page, bridge(4)

IEEE 802.3AD, http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802

FreeBSD EtherChannel kernel patch, http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/

Linux bonding driver, http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/bonding

Cisco white papers about Fast EtherChannel http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/tech_protocol_family_home.html

vconfig Linux VLAN administration utility http://www.candelatechcom/~greear/vlan.html#setup

Cisco CCO cabling information, http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_mod/cis3600/hw_inst/cabling/marcabl.htm

Linux Bridge-STP HOWTO, http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/index.html

Linux Ethernet bridging, http://bridge.sourceforge.net