etherchannel and gentoo

We'll I've migrated from my old dual p3 server, to a newer dual p3 server with a raid controller and u160 drives (not to mention doubling the ram, 1gb to 2gb). I decided to rebuild my gentoo install to clear away the cruft as it was initially created using ~x86 for everything, which is obviously a bad idea for a production machine (which i consider my server to be). Upon setting up the network I found that gentoo now has "native" support for interface bonding.