From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 6:29:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09AB37B73C for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f2LEYPF35269; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:34:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:34:25 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: John Indra Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple outbound interface... In-Reply-To: <20010321164044.B15834@office.naver.co.id> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, John Indra wrote: > Hi folks... Hello. > > This is slightly out of topic but it's still networking related, so I take > the chance to ask it in this mailing list. > > I have one FreeBSD box. I plan to plug 3 NICs on it. They will be xl0, xl1, > xl2. All three will get IPs from DHCP server, and it will a private IP > (10.2.x.x). BTW, I plug one cable modem to each NIC. So the rough figure > will be: > > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > | The | | The | | The | > | Internet | | Internet | | Internet | > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > Cable modem --> | | | > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > | xl0 | | xl1 | | xl2 | > | 10.2.210.3 | | 10.2.209.4 | | 10.2.208.5 | > +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ > > +------------------------------------------------+ > | > | > One outbound connection > > The figure pretty much says what I try to make. I want to let the system > knows that xl0, xl1, xl2 are available for outbound connection to the > Internet, and if possible, treat them as one large virtual connection to the > Internet. > You might want to search the mail archives for Bill Paul's post of Fast Ethernet Channel. I think the subject was port aggregation something or other. It is a netgraph module that will pseudo bond ethernet ports together to make 1 connection. It may or may not help you. It depends on how your Ethernet is connected together and such. Nick Rogness - Sanitation Engineer, or might as well be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message