Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:17:14 +0100 From: Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Throughput & Availability: Does anyone have experiencewith Trunking products (eg EtherChannel) ... ? Message-ID: <39A0048A.B2310DE4@polytechnic.edu.na> References: <200008191506.LAA10918@etinc.com>
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Dennis wrote: > > > eg 4 100 TX NICs > > => 200 Mbps => 400 Mbps > > > >Auto Failover Yes Yes > > We've considered doing this by balancing ethernets within bridge groups > (using our bridging code), but we have doubts about the marketability. > "Marketability" implies 1) the number of people who need it and 2) the > number of people willing to pay for a commercial product. > > Its fairly easy for us to do, but the question we ask is "why not just use > gigabit ethernet" if the application is PTP. If you are talking that sort of load, then gigabit ethernet makes a lot of sense for interupt load as well. A 64 Bit PCI card will reduce the time to transfer the data over the bus, and I understand that multiple packets can be handled per interupt on the Alteon cards. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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