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From: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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>  Is there a generalized mechanism in FreeBSD for duplexing two NICs ?
>
>  That is, if I have two 10BaseT ethernet cards in one machine, and two in
>  another machine, is it easy for me to connect the two NICs in one to the
>  two NICs in the other and get 20Mb/s ?

have you checked out Archie Cobbs <archie@freebsd.org>'s fec
code? this uses netgraph and implements Cisco's fast etherchannel.

--mark tinguely.

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