From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 13: 0:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgr3.k12.mo.us (bsd.mgr3.k12.mo.us [204.184.227.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E5637BAB3 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us) Received: from redmobile ([172.16.0.5]) by mgr3.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id OAA24081 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:59:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us) From: Support Reply-To: rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us Organization: Mountain Grove R3 Schools To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Load balancing with multiple NIC's on same subnet (possible or not?) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:13:02 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030214100100.19746@redmobile> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I have read several postings on this (multiple nics on same subnet) and am unsure if this will work or not. Description of desired outcome is as follows: _________________________ 100 mbs Backbone Switch ---------------------- | | xl0 xl1 172.16.0.8/16 172.16.0.7/16 | | ------------------ | Server | ------------------ both xl0 and xl1 have fulldplx 100mbs pipes to a switched 100mbs backbone. I am wanting this server to answer requests from the interface that can respond first (maybe have the lowest load). I am leasing IP's from 172.16.1.1-254, 172.16.2.1-254, 172.16.3.1-254, 172.16.4.1-254 wth /16 netmask. I realize that I could change the IP's of xl0 and xl1 and split the load up in groups of 254, however I do not want to do that. Right now all I get at the server when I ping 172.16.0.7 from 172.16.0.5 is: /kernel: arp: 172.16.0.5 is on xl0 but got reply from {theMACaddress} on xl1 Thoughts welcome! -- Richard Nelson Try Something Without GPF's - - Not To Mention The Cost:) FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org RedHat http://www.redhat.com Strong Supporter of Visual Tcl http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message