From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 09:07:19 2005 Return-Path: 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 0A44416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:07:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from f37.mail.ru (f37.mail.ru [194.67.57.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B5C43D49 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:07:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from _pppp@mail.ru) Received: from mail by f37.mail.ru with local id 1DBUVY-000Mww-00; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:08:04 +0300 Received: from [81.200.0.26] by win.mail.ru with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:08:04 +0300 From: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> To: Marc G.Fournier Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: [81.200.0.26] Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:08:04 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20050315172937.V92893@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use of ng_fec ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:07:19 -0000 > After reading up on the Cisco stuff that ng_fec is meant for, I'm curious > as to whether there is a way of determining if its needed ... in my case, > I have one server, two ethernets but all attaching to the same switch ... > is there some way of determining if the interface(s) (on either hte > FreeBSD box, or the Cisco switch) is "overly busy", that load balancing > would be beneficial? You're getting fault tolerance and basic load balancing (Layer 2) with Cisco EtherChannel technology. The load balancing on Catalyst 2950 uses the least significant bit of you peer's MAC address. So, you would benefit from load balancing only if you talk to many peers on your broadcat(s). Fault tolerance will work anyway. Then moving to Layer 3 you assign as much aliases to your virtual fec0 interface as you wish without messing up with routing. > > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >