From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 06:34:55 2004 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 F3BFD16A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB1A43D4C for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:34:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sudheer.vutukuru@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 80so90184rnk for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.206.39 with SMTP id d39mr694489rng; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55ee29e004081523341f9dcbde@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:04:53 +0530 From: Sudheer Vutukuru To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: A Splitter X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sudheer Vutukuru List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:34:55 -0000 Hi all, i want to configure a freebsd machine to act like splitter what i mean by splitter is we want to split the traffic based on a hash function in to two/three streams. our setup is like this we will keep 3 gigabit ethernet cards in one machine and we will be getting traffic on one line we need to split the traffic and send them in two lines. for this can i write a module in freebsd that should do this, the important point is i need to handle gigabit traffic. is there another way to do this. thanks in advance sudheer - *************************************************************************** V V N Sudheer, Master of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Kanpur.