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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:50:56 +1000 (EST)
From:      Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
To:        isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   How does one get more network throughput with FreeBSD ? (8 port router)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003301145000.1554-100000@stan>

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am writing to ask how one increases the network throughput of a
FreeBSD server, or perhaps the question is how does one take advantage
of multiple interfaces ?

Since I think the BSD kernels don't stripe packets (destined for
the same location) over all available interfaces, it seems to me that
the options are

1 Layer 2 aggregation. The interface driver round robins all packets
for the destination among the available interfaces.  

2 Running a prototocol like OSPF on the server that is able to use all
available interfaces that lead to the destination.


Thank you,

Yours sincerely.


Stanley Hopcroft
IP Australia

+61 2 6283 3189
+61 2 6281 1353 FAX



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