From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 29 17:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6D437BA09 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:49:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA19231 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:49:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: from disc-4-161.aipo.gov.au(10.0.4.161) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma019216; Thu, 30 Mar 00 11:48:59 +1000 Received: from localhost (anwsmh@localhost) by stan (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01560 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:50:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) X-Authentication-Warning: stan: anwsmh owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:50:56 +1000 (EST) From: Stanley Hopcroft X-Sender: anwsmh@stan To: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: How does one get more network throughput with FreeBSD ? (8 port router) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message