Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 18:35:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph help(?) Message-ID: <200010090135.e991ZTv86008@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200010090059.LAA14336@tungsten.austclear.com.au> "from Tony Landells at Oct 9, 2000 11:59:44 am"
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Tony Landells writes: > I'm trying to set up a multi-ethernet connection between two FreeBSD > boxes so I can evaluate the performance of some of the network things > (like IPSec) without bandwidth being an issue: > > ------------- ------------- > | Machine A | 10.0.0.1 / fxp0-fxp5 \ 10.0.0.2 | Machine B | > | |----------< >----------| | > | | \ (600 Mbps) / | | > ------------- ------------- > > It looks like I need to use netgraph to do this, but I'm having trouble > working out which pieces I need and how to put them together. > > I've looked at getting the user-PPP to manage it as multilink PPPoE, > and I think I've worked out the "server" configuration, but can't > work out what needs to be done on the client to make the multilink > connection. > > Can anyone help me with this? An alternative might be to create a new netgraph node that round-robin's packets across the links. It would be easy to write and pretty short too, and avoids PPP overhead. I can help if you're interested. Hmm... ng_round_robin(4).. might be useful enough to add to FreeBSD anyway. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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