From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 01:03:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1903F16A4D0 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:03:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: from web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9865D43CAD for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:59:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 29820 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Dec 2006 01:01:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=e0tAu4g8ZKtbzygMujXF28iuSWSo/b3aqZ0yNeg68TySDA0sFoGxbgkkX/MaM4pjRywmlvWOXOa69dpQ9Obea6QMZinMjgWcqk129FZHedi+OL7tBvGHQvG7i6KFUOiGCHucRD0REo3veNYRPndysbp7l4NY4c9e+t+59eUGM44= ; Message-ID: <20061214010124.29818.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: BspCq.cVM1mGek_3Ruquiz4_Ce9L.yygrUZQ4yiBclMaoUZMnfky2gluG1Z1lqiFO.UHHCgZhli7vrpMkqGoW2N9ys2GQdWFlI9hlpj07IXJPFVHR4j9Lg-- Received: from [67.112.21.27] by web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:01:24 PST Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:01:24 -0800 (PST) From: "N. Harrington" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: How does one bond two interfaces together to share bandwidth? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:03:16 -0000 I am trying to figure out how to bond or combine 2 interfaces together. Such that they each share traffic. I have tried one way, however when I use it I seem to have an odd broadcast occuring on my switch. Such that I am seeing incoming traffic hit some other ports on the switch. Can someone confirm if I am doing it correctly? Perhaps I have a switch issue? Do I also need to bond the ports together on the switch? Sadly the switch they are connected to does not support port bonding. Does that matter? I have not seen any mention of that being required. I have: /usr/sbin/ngctl -f- <<-SEQ mkpeer fec dummy fec msg fec0: add_iface "em0" msg fec0: add_iface "em1" msg fec0: set_mode_inet SEQ Thanks for any help! Nicole The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com