From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 05:28:29 2003 Return-Path: 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 A9A0516A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 05:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from midgard.ttsg.com (midgard.ttsg.com [216.231.105.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DDE43D39 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 05:28:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hali@ttsg.com) Received: from midgard.ttsg.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midgard.ttsg.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBFDSRXR090536 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:28:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (hali@localhost)hBFDSRUI090533 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:28:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:28:27 -0500 (EST) From: Hussain Ali To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200312121407.PAA10760@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> Message-ID: <20031215081016.C23184-100000@midgard.ttsg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: grouping 2 or more interfaces as 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:28:29 -0000 > In theory, yes. In practice, throughput is pretty often limited by PC > architectural issues. Consider, for example, PCI bus speed... Also > consider the overhead of actually distributing traffic between the > physical interfaces... > So i can get 200Mb/s out of 2 interfaces. (Theortically), this would be on the same Vlan with only one of the interfaces having an ip. Back to bridging for a moment. Can a bridge be setup in the same way? (googling mostly says no, bridging is commonly used with firewalls and not to the same switch) -Hussain