From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 29 1:26:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49B837B400 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3T8Q9l29664; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:26:09 +0200 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g3T8QEZ15863; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:26:14 +0200 Message-ID: <3CCD03A6.9070106@nentec.de> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:26:14 +0200 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Stanley Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? References: <5.1.1.2.2.20020426234504.029f7c30@208.141.46.3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Stanley wrote: > Is it possible to split the load of IP traffic with 2 ethernet cards > on a 4.x machine? I'm new to "load balancing" in a sense, however, I'd > like to try something that seems more "robust" I didn't know about the 'fec' adapter (might be a good starting point). I have a requirement (from a corporate project) to see "Teaming Adapters" (or faster etherchannels) for a network switch I am developing. There doesn't seem to be a driver at the same level as Intel has on the Windoze environment. I want to make a design overview before I start and would be interested in any possible reviewers, Please email if you are interested (for the moment clusters is on hold! :-() Andy > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message