From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 4 14: 5:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (s205m7.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FE1152EA for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA67927; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:02:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199904042102.OAA67927@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Load balancing wireless links In-Reply-To: <199903301000.UAA07602@spooky.eis.net.au> from Ernie Elu at "Mar 30, 99 08:00:20 pm" To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ernie Elu writes: > I am trying to do a building to building link with two sets of 2Mbps Spread > Spectrum wireless gear to give me 4Mbps. Each of the units has a 10baseT > port, so the obvious way to do it is to use a port trunking hub like a HP > Procurve 1600M, however a pair of those is quite expensive. > > Is there any software on FreeBSD that I can use to load balance a pair of > ethernet cards? Imagine the wireless gear was not there and you had a > pair of FreeBSD servers next to each other and you wanted to run 2 ethernet > cards in each to join the servers at twice the speed of a single ethernet. > > I could probably fudge something with mpd, but I was looking for a solution > that didnt involve ppp. It would not be hard to do it with mpd and netgraph-enabled Ethernet drivers (which already exist via patches). Wouldn't be as fast as a link-layer splitting of course. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message