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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:00:50 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Link equalization?
Message-ID:  <20021115130050.GC44627@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <20021114182748.F16667@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20021114182748.F16667@seekingfire.com>

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:27:48PM -0600, Tillman wrote:

> Is it possible to do something similar to Linux 2.4's ethernet link
> "equalization" (round-robin'ing, really) as described at
> http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/2.4routing-10.html under
> FreeBSD? I'm trying to extract more speed from my NFS server, and I've
> already gotten about all I can out of 100Mbps by tuning :-)

It certainly is.  You can use Netgraph ng_one2many(4) to make a
sythetic NIC by bundling together a number of network cards.  You
might find this page interesting:

    http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=98

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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