From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 20 22:03:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12974 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 22:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12969 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 22:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA12251; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 22:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma012249; Mon Jul 20 22:02:52 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA10176; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 22:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199807210502.WAA10176@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ethernet question. In-Reply-To: from jason at "Jul 20, 98 04:48:09 pm" To: jason@mail.intercom.com (jason) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 22:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org jason writes: > Is it possible under FreeBSD to "bond" 2 ethernet > cards together, simular to the MPP bonding of multiple > modems in Win95/98/NT? I have heard that Linux has a > ultility to bond 2 or more ethernet cards together, > making a virtual interface with one IP address. Anyone > port it yet? With companies like Matrox etc putting out > PCI ethernet cards with 4 10/100mbit ports per card, > some very interesting things could be done. Since Ethernet is frame oriented, you could certainly wire it up in a point to point configuration and run PPP over it, then use multi-link over that. You could use the BPF driver and a hacked up user-mode ppp/mpd as a proof of concept. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message