From owner-freebsd-net Tue Dec 31 16:19:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366D037B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.ccmr.cornell.edu (mercury.ccmr.cornell.edu [128.84.231.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D79C43EA9 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:19:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu) Received: from saruman.ccmr.cornell.edu (saruman.ccmr.cornell.edu [128.84.249.196]) by mercury.ccmr.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07340; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:19:04 -0500 Received: from localhost (mitch@localhost) by saruman.ccmr.cornell.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h010J3V0018217; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:19:04 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: saruman.ccmr.cornell.edu: mitch owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:19:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mitch Collinsworth To: David J Duchscher Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant NIC/Connections In-Reply-To: <980278D4-060E-11D7-B8C7-0003930B3DA4@tamu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, David J Duchscher wrote: > I was wondering how people are handling redundant connections? We > would like to have dual NICs in the FreeBSD box with each NIC connected > to a different switch. Both switches are in the same broadcast domain. > In pointers, hints on this may done would be greatly appreciated. Hmm... no responses posted to date. You didn't say why you want to do this, but for starters have a look at: http://aggregate.org/FNN/ This site has discussion of why you might want to do this and what some of the challenges are associated with this sort of network architecture. There is a grad student there doing a PhD thesis on solving your question in the Linux domain. I dunno if anyone is working on it for FreeBSD yet. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message