Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:12:49 +1100 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards working as one.. Is it possable? Message-ID: <200103082312.KAA00630@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> of "Thu, 08 Mar 2001 13:15:46 CDT." <20010308131546.337b056f.ahze@ahze.net>
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> Scenario : > - I have a 2 10M nic's in computer A , the rest of the lan has 10/100. > In turn makes the lan 100M except computer A. > - NFS mounted dir's > > > What I want : > - Computer A to be able to use NIC 1 & 2 as 1. Have nice 1 send and > nic 2 only recive. > - Or if it is not possable to do that, MAYBE have NFS send with one > NIC and recive with the other. > And have the rest of the traffic just flowing in and out of one NIC. > I think this would maybe work. But I'm not sure where to start. > > Is this possable? If so how? I'd really consider buying a 100M card for Computer A if that's an option, and since I assume you're running FreeBSD if you're mailing here, then it should be a good option for very little money and will save you a lot of time trying to make something else work with two 10M cards. If you were talking about multiple 100M cards I could see the point because gigabit is still fairly expensive (and you can't just put one in). What are you intending to connect the Ethernets from Computer A to? A switch, a hub, what brand, ... There may be a solution involving netgraph, or by using a different network topology (if that's an option). I don't understand why you would want to aggregate two (apparently) half duplex 10M cards. It seems like a lot of investment for little return. Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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