From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 14:33:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.ilstu.edu (merlin.ilstu.edu [138.87.4.8]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFC53DB6 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 14:33:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from Zaphod (south212038.resnet.ilstu.edu [138.87.212.38]) by merlin.ilstu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id QAA09006 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 16:33:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000206163045.00711ee8@pop.interaccess.com> X-Sender: fordp@pop.interaccess.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 16:30:45 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ford Prefect Subject: Channel Bonded Ethernet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A few weeks ago in a thread entitled: Beowulf on FreeBSD ? I posed the question of how to do channel bonding on FreeBSD. I recieved a reply from Alejandro Ramirez whhich linked me to the following packages http://www.inficad.com/~garbled/clusterit.html http://www.coyotepoint.com/freequalizer.shtml While they both seem quite useful, clusterit does not appear to contain what I need and Freequalizer claims it can't run on anything past 2.2. which doesn't help me. I've been looking into other alternatives but have come up short. The idea of all this is to maximize throughput in a cluster by using two seperate NICs in each machine while keeping the details of it transparent to the end user. There is a program for patched versions of linux (kernel 2.0.36) called ifenslave that does what I need, but I'm trying to avoid using Linux. (The solution for linux is described here: http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/bonding.html) Any insight, resources, etc would be appreciated. Is it possible that natd could perform this? If so what kind of configuration would I need? *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message