Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:06:57 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Load balancing ethernet? Message-ID: <1092054504.20000901170657@buz.ch>
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Hello, I'd like to know whether there's a facility to do Ethernet load balancing (having two NICs in one machine) in FreeBSD. The background is that I've got a 512 cable uplink here and getting 1024 would be way more expensive than having two independent 512 ones. So I'm really interested if I can get a NAT box to share the load among those two lines... Some details about the cablemodems: Those are 1st(?) generation Com21 models acting merely as some kind of bridge (routing your ethernetframes over cable into the backbone) and don't use their own IP nor are they acting as a conventional IP router. Cablecompany doesn't seem to have an idea which IP is connected to which modem or which MAC address (as they finally gave up trying to get traffic data for traffic based billing and now officially offer flat). The modems itself have got a MAC address, I think (there's atleast a sticker with one on the ground). Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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