From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 14 09:53:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A296716A403 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8299613C459 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01332164F0; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:53:55 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 5Rc5LfYB/wOm1IebwF9R/p+240v3Q39R0uY3Z2xlrVrc 1176544435 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18678261AC; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:53:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4620A4B1.2060602@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:53:53 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070407) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gore Jarold References: <100774.26745.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <100774.26745.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi channel bonding with netgraph - possible ? Back end needed ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:53:55 -0000 Gore Jarold wrote: > Comments ? The idea is to bond things into one, single, usable connection that could provide multiple connections worth of bandwidth for single-threaded network transactions (like downloading a single file from an ftp server). Perhaps there is a better tool to do this with than netgraph ? > > You could try pf's load-balanced NAT feature to deal with the NAT. This of course assumes you can configure a FreeBSD router directly with line presentation i.e. not using an intermediate box between it and the link to the ISP. However, I can't say I like the idea much of trying to tie all those nodes together with tunnels transiting the ISP. Sounds like a clear cut case for 802.11s ESS Mesh... which isn't available yet. BMS