From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 10 16:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22F837B865; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([208.187.122.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25574; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:28:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <396751EA.F7EF2EC6@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:08:10 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Rogness Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Narvi , Sean Lutner , Nick Evans , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: bridging References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > They can't be in the same collision domain -- the only way to do that > > is to have an Ethernet repeater which repeats bit by bit fron one > > segment to another, and propagating a collision on one segment as a > > jam on another. > > > > On a FreeBSD box, where you interfaces to ethernet segments are NIC > > cards, you can't get your hands on the ethernet frame until the > > NIC has received it completely. Thus, you don't have to opportunity > > to act as a repeater (not that you'd want to anyway) to have a > > single collision domain. > > You know, you are right...never thought it > through completely before I sent my reply. Sorry > everyone for the wasted bandwidth. > > Have 1 more question (has to do with this bridging deal): > > Anyone working on load-sharing/load-balancing or clustering > network solution with FreeBSD? Eddieware? http://www.eddieware.org/ IIRC. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message