Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:56:06 +0000 From: "Alexandre Vieira" <nullpt@gmail.com> To: "Nikos Vassiliadis" <nvass@teledomenet.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two ethernet one IP load balancing ? Message-ID: <755cb9fc0703080656o707bb9agc5c20f1bdd294419@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703081510.26432.nvass@teledomenet.gr> References: <45EFFB97.30602@esiee.fr> <200703081422.05419.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <45F0025F.7090803@esiee.fr> <200703081510.26432.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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On 3/8/07, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> wrote: > > On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:32, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > > > > > > Why do you think that the network is the bottleneck > > > in your setup? Do you have a system that can process > > > - in some way - 1Gb of email per second? > > > > That is not ONLY smtp traffic we extensively use IMAP > > and there are currently 400/500 IMAP processes on the > > machine , this protocol is a pretty bandwidth cruncher > > > > the machine support also POP3 + WEBMAIL traffic so ... > > the more it will have bandwidth, better will be the > > email service given to my users. > > You say that your servers (whatever that is IMAP, SMTP, > POP3, web) running on an one and only computer are pushing > down the wire over 1Gbps? > > What's your current bandwidth utilization? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The freebsd port channeling support (I think it's called trunk in openbsd) is very limited. You have ng_one2many which let you aggregate two interfaces using round robin loadbalancing and ng_fec with uses fast ethernet channel. There isn't any LACP support yet :| What hardware do you use to push 1gbps on a mail server? Cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - nullpt@gmail.com
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