[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

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On Thursday, 6 October 2016 08:25:26 UTC+1, Dirk Munk  wrote:

> Well then, let me give you a very good reason to scrap Phase IV. These 
> days it is normal to use many Ethernet interfaces on a system, hook up a 
> system with 4 Ethernet interfaces to one switch and 4 Ethernet 
> interfaces to another switch (redundancy) for instance. Every interface 
> can be used for a specific purpose. Datacenters are designed around such 
> infrastructure principles.
> 
> What happens when you do that with Phase IV, or Phase V in Phase IV 
> compatibility mode? 

It works just fine, unless you have really ancient switches that don't have per-VLAN MAC tables. The only slight downside is that using failover pairs with the LLA interface only gives you active-passive failover, whereas on other platforms you would active-active trunk with LACP. That's a virtual Ethernet driver issue though, and I think VSI are working on it.