From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 15:44:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFB837B401 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368AB43F93 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0208.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.208] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19AHMY-0006A0-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:44:42 -0700 Message-ID: <3EADAE8A.145453AE@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:43:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yanek Korff References: <9B05A21842F77F41ABFB3153FC93201D04884F@va-mail.cigital.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4cd9ec5334604c08000d5df0cfb2061bb667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing on Dell 1655MC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:44:50 -0000 Yanek Korff wrote: > First of all, let me apologize for the cross-post. Not quite sure which > the best forum for this question might be. That said... > > I've got a few new Dell 1655MC blade servers Broadcom BCM5703X Gigabit > Ethernet with dual logical Broadcom BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet NICs. > They ship with some Broacom software (Advanced Control Suite) which on > wintel provides failover and load balancing capability. Does anyone > know if I can get this failover/load balancing on -STABLE? I've played with this. The ACS replaces the firmware in order to get the load-balancing. You aren't going to be able to do this in FreeBSD. The firmware documentation sucks (this card is a "Tigon III", and the last time they made firmware or documentation available was "Tigon II"). They were supposedly going to support this on Linux, at one point, according to their sales rep.; you could probably make that work with FreeBSD, but AFAIK, they never really did support Linux like they said they would. -- Terry