From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 28 01:30:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1818416A41C for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 01:30:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE0143D1D for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 01:30:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB937A403; Fri, 27 May 2005 18:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4297C9C7.8030403@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:30:47 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050423 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florent Thoumie References: <1117197753.2458.23.camel@ft-laptop.int.celeste.fr> <429766AB.6070803@elischer.org> <1117230364.690.44.camel@cream.xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1117230364.690.44.camel@cream.xbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD Channel Bonding Interoperability X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 01:30:48 -0000 from what I'm reading about teql you can do this with a couple of methods.. ipfw and the 'fwd' rule netgraph and ng_one2many there may be more.. teql doesn't seem to modify the packets in any way, just to make them go across several links so both of those should work I think. the ipfw fwd method would require ip addresses on both interfaces. the netgraph method may be able to do it without that requirement. (linking to an ng_eiface node with a single address). Florent Thoumie wrote: >Le Vendredi 27 mai 2005 à 11:27 -0700, Julian Elischer a écrit : > > >>probably this would be better in net@freebsd.org >> >> > > Moved to net@. > > > >>Florent Thoumie wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hey list. >>> >>> I'm advocating for FreeBSD for about 6 months now where I'm >>> working and they have the project to build their own router >>> (which will probably be based on WRAP). >>> >>> The good point is that the actual solution is running Linux >>> but it's not highly reliable. The bad point is that they're >>> using channel bonding (on both peers) and they don't want to >>> change one (or at least the system it runs). >>> >>> I've read about ng_fec and ng_onetomany, so I know channel >>> bonding is quite easy (seems so, according to web pages I've >>> found) but I guess FreeBSD and Linux won't work correctly. >>> If that's the case, I wondered if it could be much aspossible to add a >>> new node to "translate" stuff so that both could communicate >>> correctly. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>how you do it depends entirely on how they are doing the bonding in Linux. >>you do not give any clues as to what modules they are using. >> >> > > After some investigation, it seems they are using teql on > Linux, which is different from bonding (bonding doesn't seem > to be able to use two different connections types, especially > when these are not ethernet). I'd like to aggregate one ADSL > line with a SDSL line. I'm not sure teql works like > ng_onetomany. Stephen Montgomery-Smith told me by private email > that he knew somebody who successfully used Linux and FreeBSD > together to do bonding. I really need to try it, I'm just > lacking some hardware at the moment. > > >