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From: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au>
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Subject: Load balancing wireless links
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I am trying to do a building to building link with two sets of 2Mbps Spread
Spectrum wireless gear to give me 4Mbps. Each of the units has a 10baseT
port, so the obvious way to do it is to use a port trunking hub like a HP
Procurve 1600M, however a pair of those is quite expensive.

Is there any software on FreeBSD that I can use to load balance a pair of
ethernet cards? Imagine the wireless gear was not there and you had a
pair of FreeBSD servers next to each other and you wanted to run 2 ethernet
cards in each to join the servers at twice the speed of a single ethernet.

I could probably fudge something with mpd, but I was looking for a solution
that didnt involve ppp.

Any suggestions?

- Ernie.


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