From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 01:23:51 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 2393D16A51A for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:23:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [63.240.77.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25AF43D6B for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:19:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-186-172.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.186.172]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2006121401210101300oeurhe>; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:21:01 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:20:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061214010124.29818.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <168E6D20-A6E1-458B-A1A5-80BAFD20598F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <168E6D20-A6E1-458B-A1A5-80BAFD20598F@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612131920.54630.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: "N. Harrington" Subject: Re: 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 01:23:51 -0000 On Wednesday 13 December 2006 19:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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... Maybe ng_one2many would be of some use depending on the exact situation. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel