From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 5: 1: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC23737B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0550B43E4A for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:00:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAFD0t60045273 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:00:56 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAFD0o6Q045272 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:00:50 GMT Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:00:50 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Link equalization? Message-ID: <20021115130050.GC44627@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , FreeBSD-Questions References: <20021114182748.F16667@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021114182748.F16667@seekingfire.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message