Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:08:38 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "N. Harrington" <drumslayer2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does one bond two interfaces together to share bandwidth? Message-ID: <168E6D20-A6E1-458B-A1A5-80BAFD20598F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20061214010124.29818.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061214010124.29818.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:01 PM, N. Harrington wrote: > 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? Yes, the switch would need to support Cisco's FEC protocol if you want to use ng_fec with it. > Sadly the switch they are connected to does > not support port bonding. Does that matter? Yep. In many cases, a single 100Mbs link does just fine, but if you need more bandwidth, you can pick up a gigabit NIC nowadays for not much. Picking up a GB-capable switch is more expensive, but perhaps your existing switch might have one or a couple of GB ports... -- -Chuck
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