From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 21:39:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E61F37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:39:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA55619; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAL5drK51737; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200011210539.eAL5drK51737@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: 802.1q, bonding and mpath In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.1.20001121080718.00a7b910@pop3.i4free.co.nz> "from David Preece at Nov 21, 2000 08:08:00 am" To: David Preece Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:39:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Preece writes: > I just spent the afternoon trying to work out if channel bonding / > etherchannel / trunking is possible on FreeBSD. The answers from the > mailing list archives say either: > > 1, Nope. > 2, Yup, but it's messy and you have to use PPPoE. > 3, Yup, use a kernel hack called mpath. If you're going FreeBSD <-> FreeBSD you can try ng_one2many(4).. just added in 4.2. See the man page for an example of how to set it up. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message