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To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@misha.privatelabs.com>
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Subject: Re: maxing out the 100Mb TX (full duplex)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:01:12 -0400
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Hello,

You can do etherchannel on freebsd with ng_one2many.
Man it for more information, but briefly,

It is used to load balance incoming and outgoing data in a round robin
fashion across the interfaces that are added on the "hook".


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@misha.privatelabs.com>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>; <luigi@iet.unipi.it>; <net@freebsd.org>
Cc: <rmolchon@privatelabs.com>; <jonathan@privatelabs.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:33 PM
Subject: maxing out the 100Mb TX (full duplex)


> Hello!
>
> In our load tests we seem to be maxing out the 100Mb full duplex network
> card (fxp0).
>
> The machine has two  such cards on the motherboard. How  can we use both
> of them transparently?
>
> I connected the other one (fxp1) to the switch and enabled bridging:
>
> sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=fxp0:0,fxp1:1
> sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1
>
> Both cards  are active (fxp1  does not have an  IP):
>
> media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
>
> but judging by the throughput  and the (non-)blinking lights, still only
> the first one (fxp0) is being used...
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> -mi
>
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