From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 3 2:11:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04D611524D for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 02:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walton@emusic.com) Received: (qmail 21774 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 1999 10:08:45 -0000 Message-ID: <19990403100845.21773.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 21767 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1999 10:08:45 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 1999 10:08:45 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Emusic To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 02:08:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: NIC teaming Reply-To: walton@emusic.com In-reply-to: References: <19990322234852.7793.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We recently purchased several Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ Server Adapters (model PILA8470). The documentation for the card contains this interesting info: Adapter Teaming Options ======================= The PRO/100+ Server adapter provides several options for increasing throughput and fault tolerance when running Windows NT 4.0 or NetWare 4.1x and newer: Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) - provides automatic redundancy for your adapter. If the primary adapter fails, the secondary takes over. Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) - creates a team of 2 - 4 adapters to increase transmission throughput. Also includes AFT. Works with any 100BASE-TX switch. Fast EtherChannel* (FEC) - creates a team of 2 or 4 adapters to increase transmission and reception throughput. Also includes AFT. Requires a Cisco switch with FEC capability. Is any work being done on drivers for FreeBSD that support those capabilities? I really hate it when NT can do something we can't... Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Emusic walton@emusic.com http://www.emusic.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message